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New study finds: India rabies deaths & therefore world toll far exaggerated

November 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

International Journal of Infectious Diseases affirms what ANIMALS 24-7 has reported since 2012 GUANGZHOU,  Guangdong,  China––ANIMALS 24-7 was right all along that “official” estimates of human deaths from rabies are inflated by magnitudes of order. The truth,  the whole truth,  and nothing but the truth about how and why the Global Alliance for Rabies Control,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Ghana, India, Indian subcontinent, Niger, Pakistan, Rabies, Shelters, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Semple, Hui K. Gan, M.K. Sudarshan, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, William F. Harvey

Mad dogs & rabies follow Englishmen out of India

July 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Global Alliance for Rabies Control still says there are at least 120 times more rabies deaths than found by 18 years of annual body counts          NEW DELHI,  India––Mad dogs and rabies are finally following Englishmen out of India,  approximately 165 years after an 1857 New York Times report indicated that the disease had apparently […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Politics, Population control, Rabies, Science, Street dogs Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Semple, Eskild Petersen, M.K. Sudarshan, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, William Harvey

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

June 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indonesia, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Korea, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid al Adha, Indonesian Ulema Council, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Life-or-death difference: rabies-infected,  or rabies-suspected?

May 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Verifying alleged outbreaks is critical to effective control & prevention             TABANAN Regency,  Bali,  Indonesia––Rabies-infected,  or rabies-suspected? That is the question that Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases moderator Arnon Shimshony and Shamsudeen Fagbo,  a leading Saudi-based One Health and animal rights advocate,  took up in mid-May 2022,  responding to recurring alleged rabies flare-ups in Bali,  […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Population control, Rabies, Science, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Bali, Dauh Peken Village, Merritt Clifton, One Health, ProMED, Shamsudeen Fagbo, Tabanan Regency

Namibia reports oral rabies vaccination breakthrough for street dogs

November 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Oral vaccine achieves up to 78% immunization of dogs who cannot otherwise be vaccinated             WINDHOEK, Namibia––The Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water & Land Reform on November 11,  2021 told the Chinese national news agency Xinhua that it had successfully completed a first field trial of an oral rabies vaccine for dogs. The Namibian field […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Namibia, Rabies, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Albertina Shilongo, Arnon Shimshony, Charles Rupprecht, Franklin Loew, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, Henry Wilde, Merritt Clifton, Oscar Larghi

Sheep & cattle stranded at sea by Suez Canal blockage are moving again

March 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

3,000-year-old livestock shipping route opened by Pharoahs is unblocked             ISMAILIA, Egypt––Tens of thousands of sheep,  cattle,  and other live animals stranded for up to six days aboard more than 20 transport vessels are moving again through  the Suez Canal,  as of March 29,  2021. Egyptian Lieutenant General Osama Rabei,  heading the Suez Canal Authority,  […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Romania, Sheep & goats, Spain, Turkey, Welfare Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Elbeik, Gerit Weidinger, Karim Allah, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Suez Canal

Diseased pigs & mink gave the world COVID-19, scientists suspect

March 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Forthcoming World Health Organization report is expected to confirm Chinese investigators’ suspicions          BEIJING, BOSTON, WUHAN––Will a World Health Organization report expected to be released within days indict the Chinese mink industry for infecting the world with COVID-19?          Beijing University researchers have already suspected for more than a year that mink farming was likely […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Science, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Dan Silver, Ecohealth Alliance, Linfa Wang, Merritt Clifton, Michaeleen Doucleff, Peter Daszak

Mink ranching survives in Denmark despite risky COVID-19 mutation

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Danish mink industry was to be liquidated from fear that COVID-19 mutation could neutralize vaccines in development             COPENHAGEN, Denmark––The Danish mink industry,  on the verge of liquidation as of November 4,  2020 to control a COVID-19 coronavirus mutation,  appears to have politically mobilized to win a reprieve––for the mink ranchers,  however,  not the mink […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Allan Randrup Thomsen, Arnon Shimshony, Francois Balloux, Kare Molbak, Karl Stahl, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen

Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt

May 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019             NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began,  animal shelters from coast to coast are suddenly––and predictably––weeping,  wailing,  and tearing hair about having no adoptable animals to offer in response to […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Breeding, Cats, China, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Bryan Kortis, Katherine Ellen Foley, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Ruth Steinberger

“That touch of mink” & COVID-19: Dutch outbreak hints mink may be host

May 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Fur farming to end in The Netherlands by 2024 WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands––The discovery that ranched mink can become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus may lend momentum to the Dutch national plan to phase out mink farming entirely by 2024. Concern that mink themselves might become a COVID-19 reservoir may also dampen Chinese enthusiasm for rebuilding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, China, Denmark, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Carola Schouten, Doris Day, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Soren Alexandersen, Teresa Telecky

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