Even when the night is dark, in many villages in Tshu Hsiung County, several strange faces appear. They come silently to the middle of the village with wooden sticks, and then the sound of firecrackers and slamming pots, and then the sound of dog barking and the sound of a sad cry.
A “dogstorm” is taking place in the Homing Dynasty of Chu Hsiung County, where the death of humans and animals after being bitten by dogs has been identified as rabies and has spread to four towns, including the army and Qinglong. At the request of government authorities, from 25 to 30 July, 50,000 dogs in all districts had to be killed. Only dogs used by the Public Security Directorate to solve a crime and a military dog guarding an arms depot can save their lives.
The Chief of Public Security is the head of the hit dog.
Why do you want to kill dogs? Since April this year, it is known that three people have died in the county as a result of non-existent medical treatment following a dog bite. On 8 April, a group of 59-year-olds of villagers on the road to the town of Central Tum Village died after being bitten by their own dog; on 20 June, a 4-year-old girl from the village of the Republic-based roof village, Li Wen Soo, died after being bitten by an orphan stray dog; and on 11 July, a 43-year-old child, Shi Jiaying, from the village of the Republic-based New Village, died after being bitten by a dog. Three of the above-mentioned persons died from various levels of fever in the 14 to 30 days following a dog bite and died of an ineffective hospital treatment, which clinically diagnosed rabies. This is far from over and, in the days that followed, two more cattle and three pigs were bitten by dogs and died. Even more serious are the repeated incidents of dog bites in towns such as Blue Dragon. The matter was quickly brought to the attention of the relevant authorities, such as the district governments, and the livestock authorities were asked to monitor dogs in several townships.
It was subsequently diagnosed by a veterinary expert, rabies. In order to protect the lives of the population, the county government has decided decisively to take measures to kill all the dogs in the county, and has mobilized a wide range of publicity. Let's get the dog owners to kill themselves, and then the dog squad will clean up the leak. At the same time, teams of dogs have been set up, headed by the District Director of Public Security. Dog-beating teams quickly continued from county towns to towns and villages, and village cadres and members of village councils joined the group.
Only dogs and dogs can survive.
Fortune county government issued a document that all dogs in the district must be killed and kept intact within five days from 25 to 30 July. According to the source, only dogs used by the Public Security Directorate to solve the crime and several military dogs serving as guards for an arms depot could survive. The current prevalence rate is over 90 per cent across the county and is expected to be cleared by today.
Dog chases can be seen everywhere in the established streets and villages. It was accompanied by a sad dog bark. Yesterday, at around 1500 hours, when a dog patrolled an alley in the county town, she saw a woman dressed in fashion with a white pet dog coming out and telling the story immediately, but she couldn't accept that her dog had always been with her and had almost become a member of the family, and that dog was always healthy and unlikely to get rabies. After patient persuasion, the dog owner finally reluctantly handed the chain to the dogfighter, who had just taken the chain, the poor dog saw the stick in the dog beater's hand and started shaking, the dog beats the dog to the side of the alley, and after the sound of the "pumping", the stick fell precisely on the dog, and the miserable dog screamed and drowned the whole alley, and after a few seconds of scrambling, the dog stopped moving and the body was lying in a bloody berth. This was the dog owner with his face on his face, who saw the scene and couldn't stop his emotions crying. A dozen dog crew members said it was cruel to see a dog struggling, but there was no way to beat a dog because rabies were fast.
I'll check "The Leak Dog" in the middle of the night.
It was explained that, in order to ensure the spread of the epidemic and to prevent the presence of dogs, profit-making counties have set up card points on all roads leading to and from county towns, and that all passing vehicles are subject to rigorous checks, and when dogs are found, they are killed on the spot.
A villager named Lee, a villager in the small village of Kutang, New Dynasty, said that his two dogs had been hanged the day before, as they were healthy after being quarantined, and he invited his family and friends to eat dog meat. He said that the vast majority of villagers were more supportive of the killing of dogs because they were already a threat to the lives of people, and the Government ' s advocacy was in place and the work was proceeding more quickly. A small number of villagers, however, expressed their lack of understanding and hid their dogs in the mountains or in some crops. Every day, members of the dog squads in the county come to the village and check from house to house to see if there are any omissions, such as on-the-spot killings. "Backing dogs has become a political mission." He said.
There is more talk of the way dogs are killed, with some hanging with ropes, some hitting with electrocutions, some beating with sticks, and others using medication for “suspended death”. In some places, village officials had to climb up in the middle of the night in silence and come to the village, either by firing firecrackers or by knocking on the pots in order to bark through the sound of the sound, and then they went after the dogs and quickly took action to kill them, as many of the hidden “spoilers” had found.
Is 300 000 dogs "dead for good"?
Some villagers have questioned the killing of dogs, and of the more than 50,000 dogs in the Fortune district, 4,000 have only been vaccinated against rabies. In order to stop the further spread of the rabies virus, and from the point of view of protecting the lives of ordinary people, the Government cannot be proud to kill dogs, but those who have been vaccinated are not supposed to threaten the safety of the population. Isn't it inappropriate to kill a stick?
In response to this question, the chief of the Veterinary Station of the Prefectural Livestock Department explained that of the more than 50,000 dogs in the county, 4292 had been vaccinated against rabies, and all the staff members from the Veterinary Station went to house-to-house, at a cost of $3 to $4 per dozen a year, only once a year, and in 21 days an antibody would be able to resist rabies. With regard to the practice of general strangulation, including vaccinations, the Chief of the Liang station said that not 100 per cent of the dogs were able to produce antibodies after vaccination, but only 85 per cent (about 3,400) were effective, and 15 per cent were likely not to produce antibodies. Since 15 per cent of the dogs are likely to carry rabies, and it is not certain which dog has a virus or not, the county government, for reasons of safety, requires that all dogs in the county, whether or not they have been vaccinated with rabies, be stamped out.
District governments: correct decision-making
What is the current state of epidemic control in the county? On the afternoon of 23 June this year, the office of the Prefectural Government reported to the Government of the Republic that there had been a mad dog bite in the village council of the town, followed by reports of a mad dog bite in other towns. From 1 January to 25 July this year, a total of 360 people were found to have been bitten by dogs throughout the county, and 308 people were vaccinated by dogs at the county CDC, treating 3 people who died in vain. The District Councils and District Governments have given high priority to the rapid establishment of the rabies pandemic leadership team to deploy the district-wide epidemic prevention effort.
On 18 July, the county convened a meeting of the leaders of the four communes of the Republic, Fengdong, Jiangpo and Rong Street, as well as members of the livestock and disease control departments. On 21 July, after visiting the district to investigate and control the outbreak, the animal husbandry expert of Chu Hsiung preliminarily diagnosed the rabies outbreak in the district on 23 July. On 24 July, following a televised speech on rabies in the district, the sub-prefects of the county issued 1,000 notices on further strengthening rabies prevention efforts the following day, deciding to launch a campaign against 50,546 dogs in the district, closing all dog and meat markets in the district as of 25 July, banning the sale of dog meat in county restaurants, prohibiting the circulation of dogs and dog meat outside the county, and planning to kill all dogs in the county within 3-5 days. According to journalists, the county killed a dog and subsidized the dog owner for $5.
According to Deputy Director Yang, in order to prevent the rabies epidemic, the district had initiated an emergency response plan and had reported to the provincial and state authorities, with the consent of the higher authorities, before deciding to kill more than 50,000 dogs. Because of the long incubation period of the rabies virus, it is not possible to determine which dog is carrying the virus, and it is not possible to determine which dog is specifically biting by the virus, so we have to take an all-out approach. “The epidemic is under effective control!” says a government official. A government official stated that the dog owners were mainly motivated by ideological work and were not subject to coercive measures such as fines, but that it was important to ensure that all the dogs were killed.
The wounded are still in hospital.
Yesterday, journalists learned from the People ' s Hospital in Linting County that five patients who had been bitten by dogs had been admitted to the hospital, including three in Fengdong, one in the town of the Republic, two in the ceiling, two of them mothers and children, two years and three months, and one little girl who had been bitten four days earlier, and an older wife who had been bitten for a longer period of time, but who had recovered the wounds, but who were currently suffering from pain. The statements of several patients are broadly similar: “Dogs came from nowhere suddenly, biting people, biting animals, biting them and running away.” It was stated that five patients still needed to continue treatment observation.
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