Neutersol hits the market; Third World seeks a price break

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

COLUMBIA, Missouri–Globally anticipated for more than 12
years, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March
2003, and officially introduced to the U.S. veterinary drug market
in May 2003, the injectible sterilant Neuterol is finally here–but
not there yet, overseas, in the impoverished nations where
uncontrolled reproduction of street dogs is most problematic.
As marketed so far by Addison Biolog-ical Laboratories,
Neutersol is only for American puppies, and then only for those
puppies whose caretakers are willing to pay almost as much for
sterilization by injection as for a conventional surgical castration
or vasectomy.
“Work is continuing with the FDA toward a clearance for cats
and older dogs,” Addison president Bruce Addison told Vet Practice
News.

Cockfighters cleaned up on Newcastle clean-up

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

SACRAMENTO–Cockfighters who spread Exotic Newcastle Disease
throughout Southern California and into Arizona between November 2002
and May 2003 by illegally transporting gamecocks between fighting
pits appear to have created a financial windfall for themselves,
according to documents obtained by Associated Press under the federal
Freedom of Information Act.
The USDA paid compensation of $22.3 million to poultry owners
whose infected or exposed flocks were killed as part of the
eradication effort. Most of the 3.7 million birds who were destroyed
were egg-laying hens, for whom the USDA paid $2.89 apiece,
according to Associated Press: $10.7 million.

Singapore ends TNR program amid SARS panic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

SINGAPORE–“More than 70 cat lovers gathered at a five-star
hotel yesterday to remember the 700 cats who were culled recently,”
the Singapore Straits Times reported on June 9. “The special
80-minute session, which included song and flower tributes, and a
minute’s silence for the dead animals, was organized by the animal
welfare and rescue movement SOS Animals,” founded by Sandy Lim.
SOS Animals claimed to have rescued 60 cats from the
purported culling, and was raising funds to build a shelter for them.
Another Singapore group, the Animal Lovers League, founded
by Cathy Strong, approached the Singapore Agri-Food & Veterinary
Authority with a proposal to build a sanctuary capable of keeping
2,000 to 3,000 cats–which she believed could be done for $173,000.
Earler, Strong proposed evacuating as many as 2,000 cats to
the Noah’s Ark shelter in Johor, Malaysia. Noah’s Ark founder
Raymond Wee responded that his shelter was already filled to capacity
with 320 cats and dogs, while the Johor Veterinary Services
Department said that feral cats from Singapore would not be accepted
in Malaysia anyway.

Hong Kong & WHO seek SARS host

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

HONG KONG–Severe Acute Respirat-ory
Syndrome, the latest flu-like disease among many
to cross from animals to humans in southern
China, had been diagnosed in 3,947 people in
five months as the May edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE
went to press, killing 229 while 1,935 were
fully recovered, according to the latest daily
data summary from the World Health Organization.
As epidemics go, SARS was not especially
serious. The global toll from all forms of flu
ranges from 250,000 to 500,000 deaths per year.
Dengue fever afflicts 50 million people per year.
AIDS is diagnosed at the rate of five million new
cases per year, killing 3.1 million people in
2002.
But few diseases have ever terrified a
city as SARS has terrified Hong Kong–and as
cases turned up in other nations, almost
entirely among recent visitors to Hong Kong, the
panic spread.

Blind “justice” can’t tell chickens from dead wood

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

SAN DIEGO, California–Ward Poultry Farm owners Arie and
Bill Wilgen-burg, of Escondido, California, will not be charged
with cruelty for having employees toss more than 60,000 live hens
into wood chippers, the San Diego County district attorney’s office
announced on April 10, because the Wilgenburgs were told to chip the
chickens alive by a USDA-accredited veterinarian.
The veterinarian was neither working for the USDA nor
representing it, but was advising the Wilgenbergs about killing
their flocks, at two sites, to help halt the spread of the worst
outbreak of Newcastle disease since 12 million chickens and other
domestic birds were killed to control an outbreak in 1971.

Breeders blast dog transfers for adoption as alleged biohazard

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

HARTFORD, Connecticut; PORTLAND, Oregon–Rachel
With-erspoon, 40, of Litchfield, Connecticut, only wanted to help
the Kentucky Humane Society find homes for nine puppies. Her
misadventures in early March 2003, however, may have become Exhibit
A for introducing federal and state regulation governing what the
National Animal Interest Alliance decries as, “The mushrooming
practice of moving dogs around from one region to another and from
one shelter to another within regions,” also known as “humane
relocation.”
Founded in 1992 by Oregon dog breeder Patty Strand, the NAIA
represents many animal use industries, but most vigorously defends
the interests of dog breeders. The NAIA sees in humane relocation a
direct threat to breeders’ share of dog acquisitions.

Cockfighters spread worst U.S. outbreak of Newcastle since 1971: 3 million birds killed

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

SAN DIEGO–Cockfighters are blamed for the worst outbreak of
Newcastle disease to hit the U.S. in 30 years. Agriculture officials
had ordered the killing of more than three million chickens on 20
California ranches through March 19, in futile efforts to contain
the spread of Newcastle. Other cases were reported on the Colorado
River Indian Reservation in Arizona, and were suspected in a
backyard flock near Goodyear, Arizona.
More than 12 million chickens and other poultry were killed
to control the worst-ever U.S. Newcastle outbreak, discovered in
California in 1971 but eventually afflicting most states with
significant poultry industries. That outbreak, costing poulry
producers and taxpayers $56 million, arrived with wild-caught
parrots.

Kharkov bioethics course makes a difference

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

Kharkov bioethics course makes a difference

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

KHARKOV, Ukraine–Humane educators have been wondering ever
since Massachusetts SPCA founder George Angell introduced the first
humane curriculum more than 100 years ago whether the results of
their teaching can be effectively measured.
Olga Ivanova Tolstova, founding chair of the Bioethics
Centre at the Kharkov Zoological & Veterinary Academy in the Ukraine,
believes she and her fellow faculty members have developed evidence
that encouraging students to think about the ethics of animal use
makes a profound difference.
Like a growing number of universities in the U.S. and Europe,
Kharkov Zoological & Veterinary Academy requires students to take a
bioethics course.
At the start of the course the instructors ask students to
rate on a scale of one to five whether 16 common human uses of
animals are cruel, and whether they are acceptable. The uses
include whaling, biomedical research and testing, purebred dog
breeding, keeping hens to lay eggs, fishing, fur farming, keeping
a pet dog, cosmetics testing, factory farming, hunting, trapping,
keeping a pet parrot, operating a pet shop, bullfighting,
zoological exhibition, and keeping a sick or injured deer in a
sanctuary.

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