Re: Pet passports lead to surge in dogs dying from foreign diseases

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From: Ollie Clark
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 11:56

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good golly miss Molly wrote:
> 
> "Fenris Wolf" <Fenris@reality8.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:kqbqXXAnaypAFwUH@reality8.demon.co.uk...

[snip]

>> Last year 37 pet dogs - almost half of the 84 tested at the school -
>> were found to have leishmaniasis, an incurable disease passed on by
>> sandflies in Mediterranean countries.

[snip]

>> The Government's passport for pets scheme was set up in 2000 to allow
>> animals to travel to Europe when their owners went on holiday. The
>> scheme has been extended to cover North America and up to 150,000 pets
>> are expected to travel abroad this year.

[snip]

>  This is simply scare mongering IMO. There is no clue as to what percentage
> the numbers represent.

Not exact numbers but if you assume that the number of pets being taken 
abroad is unlikely to grow by more than 50% a year then the approx 
percentage is:

(37/100000)x100 = 0.037%

So yes, the article is scaremongering, but at least it gives some figures 
so you can work out the risk yourself if you want.

-- 
Ollie Clark    -    oliverc@comp.leeds.ac.uk    -    ol@ollieclark.com
               http://www.ollieclark.com/acronyms.html

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