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    Year Of The Dog (soi Dogs, Beware) :)

    in Plants, Pets & Vets in Thailand

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    I wonder if the Thai Military Junta have read this..... soi dogs look out if they do. :D

    Rabies Outbreak Spurs Beijing to Ban Big Dogs, Destroy Strays

    By Lee Spears and Jason Gale

    Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Over-sized dogs and those without photo identification in Beijing are being snatched by the city police to curb the spread of rabies, which has killed about 200 people a month in China this year.

    Human rabies fatalities nationwide surged 30 percent to 1,817 in the first nine months of the year, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 10 deaths occurred in the capital, the official Xinhua news agency said this month, as attacks by abandoned, rabid dogs escalate.

    Police are killing strays before they can bite people, and ordering owners to register their pets. Beginning Nov. 1, owners without a credit card-sized license bearing their pet's photo will face fines of up to 5,000 yuan ($635) and the confiscation of the animal. Beijing authorities also introduced a one-dog per owner policy and is enforcing a decade-old ban on ``violent and large dogs,'' such as German shepherds.

    ``There has been a significant rise in the number of human cases of rabies particularly over the last three years in China,'' said Julie Hall, the World Health Organization's team leader for communicable diseases in Beijing. ``This is something that requires action.''

    Police are stepping up enforcement as the rate of infection rises and China is spending $34 billion in preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. More than 8,900 unregistered dogs were nabbed in the city this year, Xinhua reported last month.

    My Sunshine

    Even large-sized licensed dogs are being targeted. Yangguang is a registered and vaccinated Golden Retriever, whose owners call a good-natured pet. Yet, they found a notice on their front door last month advising that neighborhood regulations deemed the dog a threat to safety and public health. If not gone within a week, the notice said the dog would be impounded and possibly destroyed.

    ``We see all the small dogs still in the neighborhood and think, how was our dog any different?'' said Li Meng, 26, who bought Yangguang, which means ``Sunshine'' in Chinese, over the Internet for her father. The pet is now living with a friend in another Beijing suburb. ``It's hard to say whether they're really doing this to control rabies or just to make money.''

    Tactics deployed by the city's dog inspectors aren't always civil, said Jeff He, a spokesman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Beijing. In one case, a dog was beaten to death in front of its owner. Police have cut power and water supply to homes suspected of abetting clandestine canines, he said.

    Dog-bite injuries in Beijing are increasing by about 10,000 a year, and reached 70,000 in the first half, according to Xinhua. The trend is similar in other cities.

    Dog Beatings

    Concern over the disease in August prompted organized squads of citizens in Shanghai, and in Yunnan and Shandong provinces to organize to beat dogs to death. Unvaccinated strays pose the greatest risk of spreading rabies in urban areas, according to the WHO.

    Rabid dogs and other carnivores can display aggression, excessive salivation and erratic behavior. In humans, the early symptoms include fever, headache and a general feeling of malaise that can last for as long as two years. Eventually the virus travels to the brain, causing confusion, paralysis and hallucinations.

    Those bitten by an infected animal can be vaccinated soon after the event. Once the disease is allowed to progress and symptoms appear, though, death usually occurs within a week.

    New Epidemic?

    Asia accounts for more than 80 percent of rabies cases worldwide, according to a study by researchers in China and the U.K. published in December in Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. In China, 103,200 people died of rabies in four epidemic waves between 1950 and 2004, the study's authors said. Human cases are now approaching levels not seen since the 1980s.

    A ``fifth epidemic wave of rabies that began in the 1990s is gaining momentum,'' the authors said. Abandoned dogs bear much the blame, they said.

    ``In China it is extortionately expensive to register an animal,'' the WHO's Hall said. Pets are often kept illegally and unvaccinated, she added, recommending that vaccination be compulsory and cheap.

    Initial registration costs 1,000 yuan ($127) and includes the first rabies vaccination. The fee, including a booster shot, declines to 500 yuan in subsequent years.

    In New York, by contrast, the annual registration costs $2.50 for a dog that has been neutered or spayed, and $10.50 for others. A rabies shot goes for about $10.

    Year of the Dog

    China has about 150 million pet dogs. The number has climbed 30 percent in the past five years, Euromonitor Plc said in a report last year. The market research company attributes the increase to the desire among one-child households for an extra companion and as a source of comfort for older people.

    Gao Shanfeng, a retired 68-year-old, says he and his wife bought 7-month-old cocker spaniel ``Dudu'' earlier this year to liven up their home in northeast Beijing after their son moved out. The number of registered dogs has quadrupled since 2002.

    ``My wife and I don't have a lot to talk about, so the dog is someone new to talk to,'' Gao said. :o

    To contact the reporter on this story: Lee Spears in Beijing at [email protected]

    Last Updated: November 8, 2006 11:27 EST

    source: Bloomberg Asia.

    Chinese Trad Medicine Is Bs

    in Health and Medicine

    Posted

    Transcript....

    The World Today - Thursday, 26 October , 2006 12:50:00

    Reporter: Stephen McDonell

    ELEANOR HALL: A Chinese professor has started a storm of controversy with an online campaign to have traditional Chinese medicine removed from his country's public health system.

    Professor Zhang Gongyao says Chinese medicine is not scientifically proven and can be dangerous.

    But defenders of the craft have accused the professor of being ignorant of history and blind to the demonstrable benefits of Chinese medicine.

    China Correspondent, Stephen McDonell reports.

    STEPHEN MCDONELL: For thousands of years, the Chinese have been treating their ailments with traditional Chinese medicine, using ground up plants, sometimes animal parts and also treatments like acupuncture and cupping.

    It's deeply rooted in Chinese culture, but Professor Zhang Gongyao says it's conceptually vague, unreliable and sometimes unsafe. Now he wants the Government to dump it from the official health system.

    (Zhang Gongyao speaking)

    "What I want to say is that medical science is very serious. We should seriously research and discuss it. Some of our out-of-date concepts should be renewed and changed. We should use a scientific attitude to treat human beings and their lives".

    Professor Zhang told the ABC that he started his campaign against government funding of traditional medicine after years of studying it as a specialist in medical history.

    He's been using his website to garner support for the shift and it's in internet chatrooms where he, in turn, is being attacked as ignorant of his own culture and history.

    That's not surprising, according to Shen Zhixiang, the Director of Government's Administrative Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who also claims Professor Zhang is ignorant.

    (Shen Zhixiang speaking)

    "The Government's been investing more on the development of traditional Chinese medicine using scientific research, good medical practice, planting herbs, and developing the factories.

    We've already done a lot of research on the safety of traditional medicine. We've even used clinical trials".

    Since the revolution, the Communist Party has supported the development of both Chinese and Western medicine.

    In this way, to throw traditional medicine practitioners out of hospitals would be to admit a failure of Government policy.

    So, not surprisingly, Government figures have been quick to dismiss the campaign as without merit, saying Chinese medicine will remain an officially sanctioned treatment.

    Professor Zhang says he's not deterred.

    (Zhang Gongyao speaking)

    "I only care how to pursue the truth. If I find the truth, I will use my own way to deliver it. How other people view it, how the Government views it, that's their business".

    One thing this campaign shows is the growing power of the internet in China.

    Some commentators say the speed of the Government to dismiss Professor Zhang and support traditional medicine has more to do with a fear of this type of online subversion.

    ELEANOR HALL: China Correspondent, Stephen McDonell.

    ABC (Aus)

    How a tiger's penis is good for your health is a classic example of Chinese BS. :o

    Importing A Kangaroo

    in General Topics

    Posted · Edited by udon

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    Kangaroo Scrotum Bottle Opener

    An Australian family favourite - the perfect bar accessory for anyone who likes to impress their mates with their toys.

    This, is a genuine kangaroo scrotum folks, if you click on the picture to enlarge it you'll notice an abundance of hair... yes, the kangaroo has hairy balls too!

    Only $25

    :o

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    Kangaroo Paw Bottle Opener

    I had one of these 40 years ago.

    If you are old enough to remember Skippy, 2 of these were used when Skippy was supposed to pick something up. The camera shot was always tight, if you recall.

    You never saw a long shot of Skippy picking something up. Sorry to kill the illusion. :D:D

    Again, only $25 + P&P

    Importing A Kangaroo

    in General Topics

    Posted

    :o I haven't read this thread, only the title so forgive me for taking it seriously. Why not buy some Kangaroo eggs and smuggle them into the country in your bra? :D

    Don't tell me...... you're not Australian!

    Roos are marsupials, not bloody parrots. :D

    The Family Had A Meeting

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Arrggghhh........ not another one.... :D

    That makes 4 in 2 days :o

    Troll?

    Udon , You have given me good advice on other threads and for that I thank you :D but you are a cynical swine as well aren't you? :D Is this what happens as you get older :D

    Yes & yes and yes I know your real name too. :D

    Importing A Kangaroo

    in General Topics

    Posted

    It would be a great tourist attraction, just make sure to keep the bucks seperate from the public when they get horny. (The male roo, that is) :o

    A male roo , if pissed off, can disembowel you.....

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    I'd stick to Wallabies, smaller, easier to handle and look like roos. IF you're serious. :D

    Uncertain Future

    in General Topics

    Posted

    OK..Sorry I have read enough of this.

    You are a Fukcking IDIOT if you think coming to Thailand is a good idea.

    You ask for advice and I do not think that one person has said "Yeah Come on over"

    So if you are serious about this then PAY ATTENTION to what has been posted here.

    It seems to me that you have already made up your mind that you are coming anyway, so thats your call..and we can all stop wasting our time telling you not to come.

    YOUR LIFE, YOUR FUTURE YOUR SON...YOUR CALL.

    Sorry to be so harsh but reality bites

    Amen to that.

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