Rabid dogs worry Chinese
NZPA-AP Peking Rabid dogs roaming north-east China’s Liaoning province have bitten hundreds of peasants, killed an undisclosed number, and forced the authorities to start an emergency extermination campaign, a provincial newspaper has reported. “The rabies danger is not only serious, it is growing,” said the July 1 edition of the “Liaoning Daily,” received in Peking. “It not only has threatened the peasants’ lives but has caused serious economic losses to the masses,” said the report. The newspaper did not explain why the outbreak
had occurred or give an over-all statistic for human casualties. However, it said that in one county alone, rabid dogs bit more than 1300 peasants from January to April, and seven victims died in hospital. “There are also some victims who died in their homes,” the newspaper said, without giving a figure. Donggou County authorities had proclaimed emergency measures to kill all wild dogs, the newspaper said. Owners of rabid dogs must destroy their pets and pay any hospital or burial costs of their victims, the report said.
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