Monday, August 2, 2010

78 dead in Bali from rabies

In another hard lesson about tolerance leading to disaster the Island nation of Bali is having an epidemic of rabies.
They have allowed feral dogs to roam free for generations and, of the population of about 600K dogs, only about a quarter are pets.
Authorities say that 70% of dogs must be vaccinated to reach the level of safety desired and only 20% have been reached so far.
When people went to the hospitals with bite wounds, they were often told their was no vaccine available.
30% of the island's dogs have been killed and people are (finally) getting the dogs vaccinated.

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