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Ack! Little Boy ran outside
"Bastette" wrote in message
... 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 |
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Ack! Little Boy ran outside
[bat rabies in the UK]
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. The point of the WHO bulletin is that transmission of that strain of rabies to anything that isn't a bat is so rare that no epidemic is possible. So there's no need to immunize against it. I doubt the US immunizes against it either. 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. Pet passports don't just involve paper documents, you'd have to fake a registered microchip. If anybody's going to dodge the requirements they'll do it the old-fashioned way by dosing their pet with Valium and stuffing it in a box. I doubt it happens very often. The main risk might be with animals that it's illegal to import anyway. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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