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Posted by CDOGS on August 7, 2006, 11:35 am
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This picture outs tears in your eye...:'(:'(
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Officials in the eastern city of Jining said Thursday they would kill all dogs
within three miles of areas where rabies had been found, the official Xinhua
News Agency said.
The measure came in response to the deaths of 16 people from rabies in Jining in
the last eight months, Xinhua said. It didn't say when the cull would begin or
how the animals would be killed. It said the city had about 500,000 dogs.
Rabies cases are on the rise in China, with more than 2,000 people dying from
the disease each year. Only 3 percent of the country's dogs are vaccinated
against rabies.
Last week, a county in southwestern Yunnan province killed 50,000 dogs after
three people died of rabies. The massacre provoked unusually pointed criticism
in state media, while the activist group People For the Ethical Treatment of
Animals called for a boycott of Chinese products.
Other slaughters have been reported elsewhere in China this year, although the
government says it has no standard policy of destroying dogs.
"I think this is completely insane," Zhang Luping, founder of the Beijing Human
and Animal Environmental Education Center, said Friday in response to Jining's
announcement.
"What's more, this really damages our national image and sets a really bad
example to show how lazy and inconsiderate those local government officials
are," Zhang said.
Zhang said there were no laws under which citizens could stop the killings, but
said she and other animal protection activists were reaching out through the
media to try to change policy.
"I think this brutal and cold-blooded campaign should stop as soon as possible,"
Zhang said.
People answering phones at Jining's city government and epidemic control center
refused to comment or said they weren't authorized to release information to
media.
The World Health Organization has not directly criticized the slaughters, but
WHO experts have said they underscore a lack of coordination and other problems
with China's health care system.
The killings have prompted widespread commentary in state media and online
forums, with opinions strong divided.
Rabies attacks the nervous system. In humans, it normally results in death
within a week after symptoms develop.
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Posted by Osiris on August 13, 2006, 5:21 pm
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No tears for dogs in China, till the China gov. stops tearing peoples
houses down for the coming olympic games.
BOYCOT the Peking Olympics !
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