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19-03-2010, 04:13 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259099/Britain-faces-rabies-threat-Europe.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/163822/Britain-faces-rabies-threat
http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/163822_1.jpg
KILLER disease rabies could return to Britain after more than a century if controls on pet passports are relaxed within the European Union, experts warned yesterday. Strict rules requiring animals to be blood tested for rabies before they are allowed into the UK will be scrapped next year as part of an EU bid to “harmonise” pet travel across Europe. Brussels officials claim that rabies, along with parasites, ticks and tapeworms, is now rare and poses little threat.
But vets yesterday warned that the new lax rules could mean infected animals brought into the country could pass on rabies to children because the disease is still endemic across Eastern Europe. Last night the Eurocrats were urged to leave the British system alone. Shadow minister for animal welfare Richard Benyon said: “The current arrangements have proved themselves effective. An end to these rabies measures could prove very dangerous and we must fight to preserve them.”
UKIP Euro-MP Paul Nuttall said: “Rabies is a terrifying disease. Nobody should be able to decree that British people be put needlessly at risk. Rabies has not been caught in the UK since 1902. We have to keep it that way.” At present, all dogs, cats and ferrets must be vaccinated against rabies seven months before they travel to the UK and must then undergo a blood test to ensure they are protected. But the new EU law, due to come into force in December 2011, will scrap the delay between vaccination and travel, as well as the blood test. It means owners will be able to wait to vaccinate their pets right up to the day before they travel and the animals won’t even be checked to see if the jab has worked. Rabies expert Dr Paul Burr said: “We are going to get cases of rabies in the UK just so that there can be harmonised pet travel.
“But dogs and cats are not my main concern. The people who are exposed are children as they are the ones that tend to get bitten.” Dogs Trust veterinary director Chris Laurence said: “The fact is not all dogs respond to the vaccine – about two per cent do not get immunity to the disease. That would mean thousands of dogs coming in every year who could have rabies. We don’t want rabies in this country – the consequences are quite dramatic. If there was a rabies epidemic, any pet dog could be seized and destroyed in accordance with emergency public health measures.”If you want to see a rabies patient, although some may find it rather distasteful to view; http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/files/2009/01/rabies_patient.jpg
Rabies was eradicated in the United Kingdom during the turn of the last century and the last domestic death occured in 1902, although the disease still exists in Africa and Asia it is still found in Europe. As usual we are being forced to accept dangerous proposals from the EU commission and we have no say over them now. Even if the puppet EU parliament did reject these measures, the EU commission would just slide them through anyway with a Directive which the parliament does not vote on. The Eurocrats say there is little threat; if any child/person dies from this terrible disease then the blame will lie at their feet.
This is what happens when you sign away your sovereignty to an unelected body which contains many former supporters and even high profile members of the failed Soviet Union.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/163822/Britain-faces-rabies-threat
http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/163822_1.jpg
KILLER disease rabies could return to Britain after more than a century if controls on pet passports are relaxed within the European Union, experts warned yesterday. Strict rules requiring animals to be blood tested for rabies before they are allowed into the UK will be scrapped next year as part of an EU bid to “harmonise” pet travel across Europe. Brussels officials claim that rabies, along with parasites, ticks and tapeworms, is now rare and poses little threat.
But vets yesterday warned that the new lax rules could mean infected animals brought into the country could pass on rabies to children because the disease is still endemic across Eastern Europe. Last night the Eurocrats were urged to leave the British system alone. Shadow minister for animal welfare Richard Benyon said: “The current arrangements have proved themselves effective. An end to these rabies measures could prove very dangerous and we must fight to preserve them.”
UKIP Euro-MP Paul Nuttall said: “Rabies is a terrifying disease. Nobody should be able to decree that British people be put needlessly at risk. Rabies has not been caught in the UK since 1902. We have to keep it that way.” At present, all dogs, cats and ferrets must be vaccinated against rabies seven months before they travel to the UK and must then undergo a blood test to ensure they are protected. But the new EU law, due to come into force in December 2011, will scrap the delay between vaccination and travel, as well as the blood test. It means owners will be able to wait to vaccinate their pets right up to the day before they travel and the animals won’t even be checked to see if the jab has worked. Rabies expert Dr Paul Burr said: “We are going to get cases of rabies in the UK just so that there can be harmonised pet travel.
“But dogs and cats are not my main concern. The people who are exposed are children as they are the ones that tend to get bitten.” Dogs Trust veterinary director Chris Laurence said: “The fact is not all dogs respond to the vaccine – about two per cent do not get immunity to the disease. That would mean thousands of dogs coming in every year who could have rabies. We don’t want rabies in this country – the consequences are quite dramatic. If there was a rabies epidemic, any pet dog could be seized and destroyed in accordance with emergency public health measures.”If you want to see a rabies patient, although some may find it rather distasteful to view; http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/files/2009/01/rabies_patient.jpg
Rabies was eradicated in the United Kingdom during the turn of the last century and the last domestic death occured in 1902, although the disease still exists in Africa and Asia it is still found in Europe. As usual we are being forced to accept dangerous proposals from the EU commission and we have no say over them now. Even if the puppet EU parliament did reject these measures, the EU commission would just slide them through anyway with a Directive which the parliament does not vote on. The Eurocrats say there is little threat; if any child/person dies from this terrible disease then the blame will lie at their feet.
This is what happens when you sign away your sovereignty to an unelected body which contains many former supporters and even high profile members of the failed Soviet Union.