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<DIV>Dans un e-mail daté du 03/04/2009 15:28:57 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été),
Wallacepeters2@aol.com a écrit :</DIV>
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<DIV>All right everybody. We all agree that there are nasty little insects
that transmit <EM>Leishmania</EM>. They will continue to do so matter how we
spell their names. Now what happened to the dogs?</DIV>
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<DIV>Greetings to all.</DIV>
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<DIV>Wallace Peters</DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>Big problems for the dogs....</DIV>
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<DIV>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)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>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. </EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>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. </EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>A vaccine is available in Brazil, to be given
to dogs. But not in my country. </EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>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.</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Could someone send me a copy of the regulations
/ law in pdf or point me to where I could read that ?</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Thanks in advance</EM></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=1 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Jacques
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