Beware of the dog

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3137, 2017, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wilson discusses the goal of the World Health Organization and several other international bodies to end all human dogs from dog rabies. Warning signs on the symptoms of the infection cause from affected animals include behavioural change - restlessness in a normally docile dog, laziness in an active dog, fever and loss of appetite. A common community response to a rabies outbreak is a cull, but culling isn't a long-term solution, according from Katie Hampson at the University of Glasgow, UK, where it does lead to a temporary drop in numbers and the reservoir dogs which hasn't always been taken seriously in the past because of the worry that so many other animals carry the virus