Pigs can get Ebola, but do they spread it? KAMPALA, Uganda; NAIROBI, Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans, though no one knows for sure yet, warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]
Medics warn against letting the world go to rat piss
MUMBAI, India; ORLANDO, Florida—Fifteen human residents of Mumbai, India’s richest and largest city, died during the first 10 days of July 2015 from leptospirosis, a preventable but little recognized disease mostly associated with rat and dog urine. Another 30 patients were reportedly hospitalized with advanced leptospirosis infections. Outbreak News Today and ProMED-mail warned health […]
More medical warnings link dog meat to rabies
MANILA––Philippine, Chinese, and international public health media in mid-March 2015 warned that eating dogs can spread rabies, after at least 13 people ate meat from a rabid dog in Cabatangan village, Zamboanga, the Philippines. Summarized Robert Herriman of Outbreak News Today on March 15, 2015, from reports published on March 14, 2015 by Philippine media […]
Bali animal welfare societies battle rabies outbreak
DENPASAR, Bali––Someone brought a rabid dog to Bali. Yachting, fishing, or trading goods, the culprit apparently came by boat, docking near Ungasan village, where about 170 families live on a peninsula forming the southernmost part of Bali. The rabid dog arrived at about the same time that more than 200 animal advocates from nearly […]