Rabies Alert: Very Informative Articles
AnimalCare 
Sep 19, 2015 
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These articles may be informative:
Dear Mr Lim Guan Eng, please stop the killing:
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2015/09/18/dear-mr-lim-guan-eng-please-stop-the-killing/
Dr. Francois Meslin of the WHO said, “Dog culling has never had a significant impact on rabies reduction or dog population density anywhere in the world. Only vaccination of at least 70% of the dogs will eradicate rabies.” World Health Organisation studies show that if 70% of dogs are vaccinated against rabies, the epidemic will quickly die out. Hence, Bali has moved from culling dogs to mass vaccinations, with vaccines donated by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). Even in India, which we mostly deem as less developed than Malaysia, the Mission Rabies organisation successfully vaccinated 60,000 dogs in 10 Indian cities in 30 days.
Dear Lim Guan Eng, please do some research and consider the facts before continuing your simplistic, rash and heartless decision to end hundreds to thousands of innocent lives because of TWO cases. Work together with animals welfare NGOs, ask for assistance from the WHO and the WSPA to get vaccinations, and focus energy on vaccinating rather than culling, especially since culling has been proven by the WHO to be INEFFECTIVE in eradicating rabies.
Lessons from the rabies epidemic in Bali:
http://www.baliadvertiser.biz/articles/greenspeak/2010/rabies.html
World Heath Organization studies show that if 70% of dogs are vaccinated against rabies, the epidemic will quickly die out. If you haven’t already done so, have your dog vaccinated against rabies and make sure you get a collar or tag so it can be quickly recognized as a vaccinated pet. Try to keep your dog in your yard. Pet cats and monkeys should also be vaccinated, although 98% of rabies cases are transmitted by dogs.
Both the Dinas Perternakan (DP) and the Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) are vaccinating owned dogs banjar by banjar. BAWA also vaccinates street dogs. Dogs vaccinated by BAWA wear an orange collar and may be marked with paint; DP-vaccinated dogs may wear a red collar or not be marked at all. Vaccinated dogs frequently lose their collars, so it’s not always possible to tell. Private vets will also vaccinate your dog and give you a metal tag to attach to its collar.
Dr. Francois Meslin of the WHO said, “Dog culling has never had a significant impact on rabies reduction or dog population density anywhere in the world. Only vaccination of at least 70% of the dogs will eradicate rabies.”
The workshop also featured Dr. Henry Wilde, a world-renowned vaccine and rabies expert, who stated, “There is only one answer to this and that is island-wide sustainable dog vaccination using a potent imported canine tissue culture vaccine.
India’s Mission Rabies vaccinates 60,000 dogs in 10 Indian cities in 30 days:
http://www.animals24-7.org/2013/10/27/mission-rabies-vaccinates-60000-dogs-in-10-indian-cities-in-30-days/
Vaccinating 60,000 dogs in 30 days at 10 rabies hot spots around India, Mission Rabies exceeded its preliminary target by 10,000 and kept right on rolling, vaccinating another 30,000 and sterilizing more than 9,000 during the next five months.
“India remains the world’s hotspot for the disease with over a third of all deaths reported to occur here. Mission Rabies is going to change that,” Gamble asserted. “The truck continues to travel around India, running surgical training courses and teaching vets the skills required to run neutering and vaccine campaigns,” building on the work already done. As the project develops, it will include more training of Indian vets in spay/neuter, and increasingly will involve sterilization, as well as vaccination.
Mr Lim Guan Eng, if Bali and India can opt for more effective and more compassionate measures, would Penang be willing to do it too?
Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2015/09/19/rabies-alert-very-informa..
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