[Leish-l] Back to business

[Jaclamothe at aol.com]

Dans un e-mail daté du 03/04/2009 15:28:57 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été),  
Wallacepeters2 at aol.com a écrit :

All right everybody. We all agree that there are nasty little insects  that 
transmit Leishmania. They will continue to do so matter how we  spell their 
names. Now what happened to the dogs?
 
Greetings to all.
 
Wallace Peters
 



Big problems for the dogs....
 
I transmit the email sent by a vet from argentina in a veterinary  mailing 
list  (it was not anonymous but i dont give  his  name)
 
 
Now, a new problem arises. Authorities are  establishing mandatory euthanasia 
as a law for any dog that tests positive, and  all veterinarians refusing to 
put the dog down ( or faking results, hiding info  ) will be prosecuted and 
their license terminated, including jail as a  consecuence too. 
Besides the public health risks this burst of  leishmaniasis poses, we have 
to face the humanitarian and ethical problem of  killing all pets tested 
positive. 
A vaccine is available in Brazil, to be given  to dogs. But not in my 
country. 
 
How do your governments treat this disease in  dogs, and what is the rule to 
follow with positive cases, in terms of public  health and euthanasia or 
treatment.
Could someone send me a copy of the regulations  / law in pdf or point me to 
where I could read that ?
 
Thanks in advance

 
 
 
I  hope that authorities in argentina will understand that the best  way to 
aggravate the situation is killing positive dogs. It didnt work in Brazil  . In 
the recent (2000) outbreak of CL in a kennel in  USA the authorities  decided 
to decide nothing and it was a good decision. : dogs were treated with  
allopurinol alone with success, and no new cases was found. If sick dogs had  been 
killed , we could have imagined that  owner  did not declare the  next cases. 
 
 
 
Jacques  Lamothe
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