Are you happy? What did you think would happen posting that panicky crap you put up night before last? Couldn't even read the report correctly, had you done so you would have known that not one single instance of Ebola being caught from a dog has ever been documented.
Let the canine pogrom begin. Idiots.
Next up: killing goats, horses and pigs.
Whee, ain't it fun?
Thank you, RegulatorCountry.
LOL, like my comment had anything to do with causing any of this. Too funny. Hate to break it to you, but I don’t have anywhere NEAR that kind of influence on people.
LOL again.
Nah, not fun. And you are right, I definitely misread some of the info at articles I posted and in the original article.
Mea culpa. K?
You do realize that pigs really are a problem, right? Unlike humans, Zaire ebolavirus does infect pig upper (and lower) respiratory cells, which means they are capable of spreading the virus through the air much more effectively than humans.
not one single instance of Ebola being caught from a dog has ever been documented.
Not one single instance of Ebola being caught from a bat has ever been PROVEN either. It's been claimed, and speculated, but never shown definitively. The hard evidence for both bats and dogs is similar-- both appear in areas where people get infected, both are asymptotic (no sick/dead bats or dogs), both have specific antibodies to Zaire Ebolavirus. With bats it is as high as 4% with positive antibodies based on a recent study, but no one has done a comparable study on bats or other potential hosts. The difference COULD be circumstantial, the first outbreaks had a common denominator of visits to a fruit bat cave, but after looking very hard, they never found ebolavirus in the guano, or a live virus in the bats. Since then, they have looked very hard at bats, but to date only one group has looked at dogs and that fairly recently. My point is, there are more unknowns than knowns here, and in those cases you have to assess all the available facts and make a conservative hypothesis. The hypothesis that dogs can spread the virus is reasonable, because of the risk, until proven otherwise. We don't understand the mechanism of ebola infection in dogs, so even tests could be misleading- what if the virus cycles from dormant to active? Then you might get a false positive. If ebola comes here in force, I shelter in place and my dog stays with me. If she goes out, I go with her to the fenced yard and that's it.