When a British Columbia woman experiencing fever, headaches and weight loss for two months finally went to her doctor, a blood test revealed she’d contracted a contagious disease from a dog she’d rescued in Mexico.
Dr. Elani Galanis, an epidemiologist and public health physician at the BC Centre for Disease Control, said the case was surprising because the previously healthy middle-aged patient didn’t seem to be a candidate for the transmission of brucellosis, which medical literature suggests can afflict people with weakened immune systems, or the very young and elderly.
“Up until this adult woman became infected and tested positive we felt like the risk to humans, although possible, was very, very low,” said Galanis, who wrote about the anonymous woman in a recent issue of the BC Medical Journal.
The woman worked for an animal-rescue organization that transported dogs to Canada from Mexico and the United States, often driving there to pick up the animals, Galanis said.
On one occasion, she was bringing back a pregnant dog from Mexico and likely came into contact with the animal’s pregnancy fluids as it spontaneously aborted two stillborn puppies, Galanis said, adding the dog later tested positive for the bacterium brucella canis and the woman was diagnosed after seeking medical treatment last December.
“Given the story in other places, like the rest of North America, this hasn’t been seen much before,” Galanis said of transmission of the disease to humans. “We’re just starting to see it so I do believe it’s a true emergence of a new problem.”
Local pet owners should hope she didn’t parade it through a Petsmart dripping fluids. The only cure for canine brucellosis is death.
Morons
Importing sick animals a feature, not a bug of the so-called animal rescue movement. They are determined to end the private ownership of animals, and if that means by introducing a pathogen that has no cure, so be it. All while turning a very big profit on the so-called rescues.
Wow that was a true crazy SDA rant.
It seems likely that no one knew the animal was ill. Keep in mind that everyone in every organization and in their personal lives hit a complacency phase. That means they apply the minimal effort to work.
Besides, I can find no way to blame this on Israel or the Jews so you need to share at Zero Hedge for their own insightful interpretation. Odds are it would be not much different than your own.
I suggest reading Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913
Then maybe lay off the Espresso for a few days.
You can tell that to the people who lost dogs to imported H3N2 Asian influenza a couple of years ago — and the thousands of us who scrambled to get vaccine when it finally became available. Imported courtesy the market in virtue signalling canine accessories, direct from Korea.
No one ever knows that a brucellosis infected dog is ill. That’s why reputable breeders test every outside female prior to breeding, because it’s the first line of defense. It was nearly unheard of for a dog to test positive for CB 15 years ago. Not any more.
(And you must be new here if you believe this site is anti-Israel.)
Amen, anyone who gets their dog from sources other than a reputable breeder is an idiot and a threat to responsible dog owners.
A crazy rant from SDA?
about 98% of the text is an excerpt from CTV
only 2 lines are from smalldeadanimals
Two lines saying that contagious diseases from which dogs can die are contagious diseases from which dogs die is not what a rant is
what you posted , that incoherent cluster, now that is a rant.
You must have forgotten to take your meds.
Try something bona fide and administer a hot lead one.
Your farrago of bullshit avoids the central question: why are so-called rescue/humane organizations importing dogs with no screening. This is not an isolated instance; in addition to H3N2, rabid animals have also been brought in, as well as animals infected with a new, virulent strain of canine distemper virus. All to make a quick buck off the “ rescue “ market. Regulations should be passed as necessary and enforced with very stiff fines to punish this irresponsible commerce. And a continent wide public information campaign is necessary to inform the public that these are not rescues off the street they are bought from dog farms in the third world.
We are bringing in humans with diseases that were wiped out in Canada decades ago. You want a rant then there is shit load to rant about with the incompetence of government.
“no one knew”
well shythead, THAT is WHY quarantine should be MANDATORY BY DEFAULT.
kinda like *before* the bleeding hearts took over, you know, when we DIDN’T have this frighteningly dangerous situation putting ALL domestic pets at some risk??
‘bleeding hearts’ ya I’d like to give them a ‘bleeding heart’, aka a hollow point right in the chest for putting MY beloved critters at risk.
you are a troll.
As I was growing up there was a major program to eliminate brucellosis. Blood was drawn on cattle and it was a big deal. Are the pathetic “rescuers” going to destroy our agricultural industry?
I have to agree. Past generations have spent millions (billions) working to irradicate diseases that would destroy agriculture, pets, and ultimately neighbors. Our grandparents laboured under the wings of their own experience (and sorrow) to protect us, our future, and consequently our prosperty.
Now we toss their legacy away.
Apparently vaccination / pasteurization = bad,
Pretty scrofulous puppies from abroad = good
(Instagram moment — look at me I’ve rescued a street puppy from a sh1tehole….it’s a lovely golden colour–shame about your livestock but I’m Vegan so you’re bad anyway — and my drippy whitish puppy means so much more than your cows or your neighbor).
I’m going to start a pool on the return of polio–heck kids here comes the plague. Wonder how bad ebola is is the Congo and if they have dogs I can abopt.
Yeah because there aren’t enough Canadian dogs to “rescue”.
An estimated 600,000 per year.
Seems like the only cure for leftism (which includes animal worship) is death too. Abort that “blob of cells!”
In other scary news, Pravda growls.
https://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAKCN1SM26Z-OCATC
Canada’s Trudeau pledges ‘consequences’ for disinformation on online platforms
Our masters only do the right thing when the consequences of not doing so inconvenience them personally.
Nothing of substance will be done in Canada about the trade in “rescue” dogs till someone’s “rescue” mutt kills, cripples or mutilates the child of someone important.
A lot of pet dogs in Ottawa are “imported” from Nunavut. Only a matter of time before one of them decides the snowflake some Librano had by his Chinese trophy wife looks like a tasty snack.
Then, maybe, we’ll see Ottawa start to pay the Inuit in cash, booze or pot to get serious about shooting wild dogs in earnest, as they should have done in the first place, and get the Iqaluit Humane Society shut down.
Until then, those serious about dog ownership should only get one with a solid pedigree (i.e. a predictable personality) from a reputable breeder. Never adopt a mutt from a “rescue.”
We were in Northern Quebec last year and saw about 20-30 dogs at the local dump. Oddly, none of them were alive and they were heaped in a big pile.
Just as dumb as those Animal Rights idiots who bought t hat lobster so they could set it free and it died on them
“Local pet owners should [not got to]…. Petsmart”
FTFY.
Wasn’t it last week some Norwegian died of rabies from a puppy bite? A rescue dog from the Philippines or someplace?
The puppy mills in Asia are cranking out rescue dogs for the NA market by the thousands.
We have no shortage of canines in this country. Dogs are readily available from reputable breeders. The rescue dog business is bull shit.
I’m looking for a pup myself. Just started. My old breeder who I bought many dogs from passed away. I’m now faced with finding a replacement. I’m fussy so it wont be simple. Looked at a litter last week but took a pass.
No rescue dog in my future.
Just out of curiosity, what breed are you looking at?
Lab
Love retrievers of all kind, my choice has been Flat Coats, not the healthiest of breeds but once they steal your hart….
“Up until this adult woman became infected and tested positive we felt like the risk to humans, although possible, was very, very low,” said Galanis,
I wonder how many people caught this disease from dogs before this one woman tipped the score over into no longer very, very, low risk. Or does the Dr. not understand the meaning of what she is saying? Low risk is less than high risk, but it’s still risk. Sooner or later someone is going to catch it, and if the incidence of exposure to possibility is increased, the possible will happen sooner.
Low risk, but it means death for any who contract it. This imbecile shouldn’t be practicing medicine. You only ignore low risks when the downside is something that will pass or can be cured. If you anyone is bitten by even a “ vaccinated “ animal, they should demand a rabies shot, because by the time the rabies infection produces symptoms,it is too late to save the victim.
What Johnboy said at 2:34 pm.
Wouldn’t it be prudent to not allow this importation?