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Key to rabies control lies in neutering dogs
Faiza Ilyas in DAWN:
KARACHI, Sept 28: The city government kills 72,000 to 75,000 stray dogs a year but does not invest in promoting or facilitating methods to neuter animals, which is a sustainable and humane method of controlling the stray dog population and reducing the threat of rabies. Of the 16 government-run veterinary centres in [...]
World Rabies Day
Killing dogs is not the solution!
Karachi – Successive city governments in Karachi have over the decades been killing stray dogs by strychnine poisoning and shooting with guns. They have even involved the general public in this from time to time by offering cash as reward for every dog killed. What they fail to comprehend is [...]
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Govt urged to take steps against rabies
Report in DAWN:
KARACHI, Aug 31: Expressing concern over a surge in dog mauling cases in the country as well as in Karachi, experts have urged the government to gear up it efforts for the prevention of rabies. According to health practitioners and environmentalists, around 1.5 million dog mauling cases and 2,000-5,000 deaths from rabies are [...]
Stray dogs on the rampage
Article in DAWN:
Faisalabad: The city’s canine population has grown dramatically over the last few years and as a result hundreds of people have been bitten by stray dogs, but this is not a matter of concern for the newly-created towns or the district administration.
Visits to various areas of the city reveal that a number of [...]
Killing of stray dogs in Karachi
The Monday, June 11 2007, edition of Pakistan’s leading English daily newspaper DAWN has news of the Liaquatabad Town Administration killing 167 dogs in their jurisdiction in Karachi. According to the news item, the sanitation department is encouraging residents to inform them about stray dogs in their area so that they can come to [...]
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Don’t bite the dog…
Don’t bite the dog…
Shortage of anti-rabies vaccines
Editorial in DAWN:
PARTICIPANTS in a workshop in Peshawar on rabies were right in demanding that the government manufacture anti-rabies vaccine to save the lives of people bitten by stray rabid dogs. They contend that as many as 150,000 people are bitten by stray dogs every year, of which up to 5,000 people die of rabies [...]
ABC: The Problem-Solution Agenda
ABC: The Problem-Solution Agenda
Directives to eliminate stray dogs
Directives to eliminate stray dogs
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How to eradicate canine rabies in 10 years or less