Rabies Alert: at least nine dogs euthanized
At least nine dogs were euthanized after an alert to rabies launched this week and spread to several regions. Up to 200 people who have been in contact with animals have been identified and a hundred should be vaccinated this Saturday in Seine-et-Marne. A hotline has been set up: 0800 13 00 00.
The monitoring is ongoing, and several dogs were euthanized. Guillaume Biet.
Didier Houssin, the Director General of Health, reported on the alert to rabies. He answered questions from Pascal Humeau, in the newspaper noon.
The details of William Biet.
How dogs were contaminated? The answer with Monique Eloi, the Deputy Director of Food veterinary services.
After Cracotte, Gamin and Hurray, six dogs of a municipality near Fleurance in the Gers were euthanized Friday evening. Health authorities thought they had been in contact with the dog carrier of rabies Gamin. The six animals, "unidentified or not properly vaccinated against rabies" were in a house occupied by a community of young people. Four other animals, vaccinated, were left under surveillance from their masters. And then fourteen people have been in contact with the dog Gamin were identified and directed at the centers of anti-rabies vaccination of Pau and Toulouse.
An order restricting the movement of animals on the town of Montestruc-sur-Gers was made by Mayor Jean Rebeil. "Only dogs identified and properly vaccinated against rabies can move freely, provided they are placed under the direct supervision of their teacher," said the prefecture. Dogs are also under surveillance Grandpuits, in the Seine-et-Marne, in Lisieux in Calvados and Tarbes in the Haute-Pyrenees. And "150 to 200 people in France have been identified" as having been "possible contacts" with three dogs that died of rabies, "said the Director General for Health Didier Houssin.
More than "90 families and their children" were expected Saturday at primary school in Grandpuits-Bailly-Carrois, in the Seine-et-Marne, to be vaccinated against rabies. This refers to those who have been in contact with the dog carrier of rabies.
A case of rabies in Grandpuits was confirmed on February 26 by the Pasteur Institute in Cracotte called a bitch that had bitten a girl aged 12, on February 18. The child had received a vaccination healing very quickly after the bite and the dog was euthanized. The health survey has determined that the animal was in fact the third in the chain of contamination detected in France. The dog at the origin of the contamination, Gamin, is that of a couple who returned from Morocco in October last year without knowing that his dog had been contaminated there. The investigators were able to determine that the animal had gone to Tarbes then Auch but they also worry that the other dogs infected, in turn, have traveled, crossing their turn to other dogs and other owners.
To try to limit contamination, the perimeter surveillance has been expanded by the health authorities. 35 communes in the middle of the Seine-et-Marne, a town of Lisieux, the small village of Montestruc, in the Gers and the agglomeration of Tarbes are now concerned. The ministry calls on people who might have been in contact with these dogs call the toll-free number 0800 13 00 00. All dogs and cats that have not been vaccinated should, as far as possible, not leave. Rabies is transmitted through bites, scratches and licking is fatal to humans if not treated before the onset of the first symptoms.
The monitoring is ongoing, and several dogs were euthanized. Guillaume Biet.
Didier Houssin, the Director General of Health, reported on the alert to rabies. He answered questions from Pascal Humeau, in the newspaper noon.
The details of William Biet.
How dogs were contaminated? The answer with Monique Eloi, the Deputy Director of Food veterinary services.
After Cracotte, Gamin and Hurray, six dogs of a municipality near Fleurance in the Gers were euthanized Friday evening. Health authorities thought they had been in contact with the dog carrier of rabies Gamin. The six animals, "unidentified or not properly vaccinated against rabies" were in a house occupied by a community of young people. Four other animals, vaccinated, were left under surveillance from their masters. And then fourteen people have been in contact with the dog Gamin were identified and directed at the centers of anti-rabies vaccination of Pau and Toulouse.
An order restricting the movement of animals on the town of Montestruc-sur-Gers was made by Mayor Jean Rebeil. "Only dogs identified and properly vaccinated against rabies can move freely, provided they are placed under the direct supervision of their teacher," said the prefecture. Dogs are also under surveillance Grandpuits, in the Seine-et-Marne, in Lisieux in Calvados and Tarbes in the Haute-Pyrenees. And "150 to 200 people in France have been identified" as having been "possible contacts" with three dogs that died of rabies, "said the Director General for Health Didier Houssin.
More than "90 families and their children" were expected Saturday at primary school in Grandpuits-Bailly-Carrois, in the Seine-et-Marne, to be vaccinated against rabies. This refers to those who have been in contact with the dog carrier of rabies.
A case of rabies in Grandpuits was confirmed on February 26 by the Pasteur Institute in Cracotte called a bitch that had bitten a girl aged 12, on February 18. The child had received a vaccination healing very quickly after the bite and the dog was euthanized. The health survey has determined that the animal was in fact the third in the chain of contamination detected in France. The dog at the origin of the contamination, Gamin, is that of a couple who returned from Morocco in October last year without knowing that his dog had been contaminated there. The investigators were able to determine that the animal had gone to Tarbes then Auch but they also worry that the other dogs infected, in turn, have traveled, crossing their turn to other dogs and other owners.
To try to limit contamination, the perimeter surveillance has been expanded by the health authorities. 35 communes in the middle of the Seine-et-Marne, a town of Lisieux, the small village of Montestruc, in the Gers and the agglomeration of Tarbes are now concerned. The ministry calls on people who might have been in contact with these dogs call the toll-free number 0800 13 00 00. All dogs and cats that have not been vaccinated should, as far as possible, not leave. Rabies is transmitted through bites, scratches and licking is fatal to humans if not treated before the onset of the first symptoms.
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