And how many healthy dogs have been culled???
Will be there be an announcement to say the culling should stop???
Will be there be an announcement to say the culling should stop???
And how many healthy dogs have been culled???
“in capturing street dogs, the public must help the teams working in the field. Pastika said: "The people can directly take steps to kill street dogs. If this is only done by government team, clearly we'll be late in handling the problem.
In response to what is feared to be a rabies outbreak in Bali, several authorities and health organizations expressed their readiness Monday to carry out several measures designed to curb the spread of the disease.
Their willingness was declared at a coordination meeting held at the Bali Health Agency chaired by Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the director general of disease control and environmental health at the Health Ministry.
The meeting was attended by officials from regency animal husbandry agencies, the Bali Health Agency, police, tourism offices, community health centers, state-run Sanglah Hospital and other related institutions.
The Bali provincial administration has declared a condition of extraordinary occurrence following the confirmation that a brain sample from a dog in Kedonganan, South Kuta, tested positive to rabies.
"This is an extraordinary occurrence or an emergency situation. We have to quickly work to restore Bali as a rabies-free area," said Dewa Ketut Oka, head of the Bali Health Agency.
However, one only one brain sample of one dog tested positive, Oka said. The results of laboratory tests on the four people who died in Ungasan village, Uluwatu, recently after being bitten by stray dogs were not available yet.
"The residents can just go ahead by taking the initiative to kill stray dogs. If the mass dog culling relied only on administration officers, it would take too long to get rid of," said Pastika at an open house session with the Balinese people.
The existence of stray dogs along the streets, he said, had sped up the spread of the deadly rabies virus.
Laboratory tests showed the four -- two elderly and two children -- died because of dog bites, but it was still unclear whether they died because of rabies.
"But there is an indication, the four died because of bites by rabies-infected dogs. So we have to respond to it as quickly as possible to curb its spread," Pastika said, adding rabies could only be controlled by killing the stray dogs.
(Governor Pastika)...is alleged to have said...
Roy said:BUT, Bert, what's going on North...or anyone else...what's going on in your neck of the woods?
The Bali provincial administration has declared a condition of extraordinary occurrence following the confirmation that a brain sample from a dog in Kedonganan, South Kuta, tested positive to rabies.
With regard to their deaths officials of the hospital refused rabies infection. Head of Emergency Unit of Sanglah General Hospital, dr. Kuning Atmadjaya, Sp.B. said that they are suspected for rabies at first considering their background. “However blood tests have proven that there were no rabies infection,” said Kuning
Pan Buncing, 60, relies on his four dogs to protect his cattle.
He rarely feeds them, letting the dogs look for their own food in trash bins or other places. He simply gives them shelter out on his front yard.
"They always come back to my house though after feeding at wherever they go to feed," he said Tuesday.
The way Buncing treats his dogs is similar to many other Balinese, who rarely collar their dogs or put them on leashes. It is near impossible to identify pet from wild dog.
The public is doubting the effectiveness behind the provincial government's plan to cull the island's wild dogs after a rabid dog was recently found on this island, which has been rabies-free for the past several decades.
Buncing himself disagrees with the plan, not wanting to lose the dogs which he has relied on to safeguard his cattle for years.
Dog owners aren't the only people being troubled by the rabies scare. Semaraputra, a 69-year-old owner of a pet shop on Jl. Veteran, Denpasar, said the threat of rabies had made it harder for him to sell pet dogs.
Semaraputra, whose pet shop has become increasingly popular since he rented out his home to be used as a pet shop in 1982, said more and more customers were asking whether his dogs had been vaccinated against rabies.
The rabies vaccine is not available in Bali as, until now, it had never been needed.