Comments on: Can Dogs Transmit Ebola? And, should Excalibur be put down? they put down Excalibur.

By: Shayuri R Deepak

Shayuri R Deepak — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:27:29 +0000

i agree completely , there was no evidence and such a drastic move was not necessary

By: Trishika Parhalad

Trishika Parhalad — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:11:53 +0000

I find this to be very harsh and demeaning. I did not hear or see any other case of this sort. I do not think that dogs could transmit Ebola and if they can, where is the evidence?
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By: Trishika Parhalad

Trishika Parhalad — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:11:13 +0000

I find this to be very harsh and demeaning. I did not hear or see any other case of this sort. I do not think that dogs could transmit Ebola and if they can, where is the evidence?

By: Shayuri R Deepak

Shayuri R Deepak — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:59:19 +0000

I agree with that the decision made was very harsh and it was drastic. There is no proof or evidence stating that the dog was infected so there is a possibility that an innocent dog was killed. There is also no proof of dogs transmitting the Ebola Virus . I agree with you Kim and it is very concerning if you consider the mass murder of dogs in Africa

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By: Shayuri R Deepak

Shayuri R Deepak — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:35:06 +0000

Interesting theories on what caused the conflict between the dinosaurs .The theory on dinosaurs fighting over their mates is quite fascinating but there is the possibility of the bite marks being caused because of competition for food and their territories. According to Charles Darwin and his theory of Natural Selection , competition between the species is normal. I noticed that you did mention inter-specific and intra-specific competition and I agree.

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By: natalia moodley

natalia moodley — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:34:37 +0000

Without substantial proof assumptions on the dog being infected should not have been made .I think there should have been a proceedure to follow to confirm the assumption (15090478)

By: Tiara padayachee

Tiara padayachee — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:29:16 +0000

is it right to assume that an animal has a disease without conducting the correct experiments? i agree that it was wrong of putting an innocent dog down because of an assumption. for something of that degree to be done enough evidence should be provided!

By: Kimelle Krishnalall

Kimelle Krishnalall — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:39:36 +0000

I do believe that putting the dog down was drastic, considering we have no proof that they can transmit the virus. do you think that if evidence suggesting that they can transmit the virus wa found that it would lead to the mass killing of dogs in parts of Africa strongly effected by Ebola?
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By: jane

jane — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:34:34 +0000

daedalus2u and Calli – The nurse is in the hospital because she needs medical care. Her husband could just as well have been quarantined at home – alone, where he could have infected nobody except in some people’s imaginations his dog – until and unless he developed possible symptoms. He is confined in a hospital only because the Spanish authorities are so frightened of the coming plague that they view potential victims as threats first and human beings second. The house where the American case’s relatives are confined is not a BL-4 facility, and even if one of those relatives should indeed be infected, CDC does not seem to think that the virus will magically float out of the house and infect people walking down the street.

Craig, you demonstrate that you fail to understand what a “fact” is; your opinions are not facts, nor are your fears. Indeed, there are differences between humans and non-humans, but it is reason that tells me that an animal whose cognitive abilities may be equal to my own – orcas, say, are inferior to humans when it comes to tool use and genocide, but superior in other cognitive domains – has similar inherent value. There are some who would happily kill a dozen orcas, or even exterminate the species, if it would save “one precious human life.” Such an extreme posture is clearly motivated by “emotion”, and it is frequently the emotion of believing that they are created in their deity’s image and orcas are not. If that is not the case in your particular instance, of course, I apologize for any suggestion to that effect.

The attitude that it is okay for humans to do anything whatsoever to animals if it is alleged to perhaps possibly profit any human, and “evil, warped and a failure of ethics” to object, has already caused more than a little harm to humans – among the least of these, at least so far, is the fact that forest clearance causes viruses like Ebola to spread to humans more often – and it promises to do more. The living ecosystems that it would be “warped” to try to protect are in fact our source of sustenance, and once we have destroyed them, we will find that we can’t eat oil shale.

Also, I point out that there are those who would kill a dozen, or a thousand, Africans if it might save one white Uh-merican life. You can go to any of hundreds of websites and find some turkey bellowing demands that victims should be killed, if indeed their whole communities not exterminated. Once you make My Ingroup First your sole guiding value, especially if you have an ignorant and short-term view of what your ingroup’s interests might be, there is little you won’t do.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:13:01 +0000

Is it just me, or is all this speculation about Ebola starting to eerily resemble the plot of “John Carpenter’s The Thing”??

(That film –one of the few that has ever given me “the willies”– even started out with a DOG being a suspected carrier…)