Another dog may have been infected with Ebola. But this time, unlike what happened for Excalibur, the dog of the Spanish nurse Teresa Romero Ramos, will not be killed, but will be isolated.
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Another dog may have been infected with Ebola. But this time, unlike what happened for Excalibur, the dog of the Spanish nurse Teresa Romero Ramos, it will not be cut down, but it will be isolated.
According to USA Today reports, officials in Dallas, Texas are planning to di spare the dog's life which always belongs to a nurse who was recently diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus.
The woman works at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and tested positive for Ebola on Sunday. He had assisted another infected, Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola last Wednesday. Animal control officers and employees of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will work together to remove the dog from the apartment of the sick woman.
The four-legged will be kept isolated as an alternative solution, at least until the patient is cured. But what changes between this dog and Excalibur? Nothing. Only the fact that, unfortunately, in Spain officials have determined that quarantining the dog was too risky, although the World Health Organization has acknowledged that there is no evidence that dogs can transmit the Ebola virus to a human.
So Excalibur was sedated and killed, despite the fact that millions and millions of people around the world have protested to ask for his salvation. On Twitter the hashtag #SalvemosaExcalibur, “Let's Save Excalibur”, was sent nearly 400.000 times in 24 hours.
In an equally short time, a petition set up on the Change.org website collected more than 380.000 signatures, and a second petition collected more than 70.000. After his death, his body was "placed in a sealed biosecurity device and transferred for incineration to an authorized disposal facility," according to a statement made by the Madrid government, as explained by the Associated Press. .
But in Dallas, fortunately, they wanted to act differently. Surveyor Mike Rawlings explains:
“This was a new twist. The dog is very important to the patient and we want him to be safe ”.
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