"Bastette" wrote in message
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Jack Campin wrote:

I think [the rabid bat] bit the dust quickly.

It didn't, but that doesn't seem to be a form of rabies likely to
make an epidemic.

http://www.who-rabies-bulletin.org/a...s_Figures.aspx

An epidemic would be terrible. But even in the US, where it's pretty rare
for a human, or a human's pets, to get infected, we go to a great deal of
trouble to immunize our pets.

what happens now that animals don't have to spend 6 months in
quarantine. It's much easier on them, for sure, but doesn't that
increase the odds that an infected pet will get into the country?

Pets are only exempt from quarantine if they've been immunized. Since
there's much less incentive for a pet owner to avoid immunization than
to avoid quarantine, the chances are that the new regimen will be more
effective than the old one.

Someone could always fake the necessary documents. Fraud happens
everywhere,
but in this case the stakes are pretty high.

--
Joyce

So are the odds against someone traveling with a pet that has rabies.


--
Joy

Frazer Island

Fairy penguins march
Out of the sea at sunset
Chatting as they come.
-- Australia Haiku by Joy Gaylord