Aryavartha
12-11-2006, 03:54
:D
That's right folks. Reason is "rise in rabies". :eek:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20727456-29677,00.html
China launches 'one dog' policy
From correspondents in Beijing
November 09, 2006
BEIJING has launched a "one dog policy" in an effort to curb a sharp rise in rabies linked to the ballooning population of unregistered canines.
"Each family is permitted to raise one dog,'' the Government said in a website statement announcing the new policy.
"Large dogs, ferocious dogs and the unregulated raising of dogs are not allowed.''
Rabies has emerged as the biggest killer among infectious diseases in the country over the past five months, according to the official media.
China's health ministry recorded 2254 cases in humans in the first nine months of 2006, up 26 percent over the same period last year.
At least 318 people died from the disease in September alone, putting rabies' deaths ahead of those caused by AIDS and Hepatitis B.
Last month China's central Government launched a massive national campaign to register and inoculate dogs after a series of rabies-related deaths resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of canines.
The Beijing regulations apply only to the city centre but list wide-ranging restrictions on dogs in public places.
Rising wealth in China has led to a boom in dog ownership, but most dogs are unregistered and not inoculated due to high registration fees and costly rabies shots.
Up to 150 million dogs are estimated to be unregistered and unvaccinated in China, the China Daily reported last month, a figure that will make efforts to wipe out rabies problematic.
Of an estimated one million dogs in Beijing, only around 450,000 were registered, the paper said.
In the southern city of Guangzhou, only 1000 of the city's 50,000 dogs were registered, it said.
China already implements a "one child family planning policy'' aimed at slowing the growth of its human population, which is the world's largest at 1.3 billion people.
That's right folks. Reason is "rise in rabies". :eek:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20727456-29677,00.html
China launches 'one dog' policy
From correspondents in Beijing
November 09, 2006
BEIJING has launched a "one dog policy" in an effort to curb a sharp rise in rabies linked to the ballooning population of unregistered canines.
"Each family is permitted to raise one dog,'' the Government said in a website statement announcing the new policy.
"Large dogs, ferocious dogs and the unregulated raising of dogs are not allowed.''
Rabies has emerged as the biggest killer among infectious diseases in the country over the past five months, according to the official media.
China's health ministry recorded 2254 cases in humans in the first nine months of 2006, up 26 percent over the same period last year.
At least 318 people died from the disease in September alone, putting rabies' deaths ahead of those caused by AIDS and Hepatitis B.
Last month China's central Government launched a massive national campaign to register and inoculate dogs after a series of rabies-related deaths resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of canines.
The Beijing regulations apply only to the city centre but list wide-ranging restrictions on dogs in public places.
Rising wealth in China has led to a boom in dog ownership, but most dogs are unregistered and not inoculated due to high registration fees and costly rabies shots.
Up to 150 million dogs are estimated to be unregistered and unvaccinated in China, the China Daily reported last month, a figure that will make efforts to wipe out rabies problematic.
Of an estimated one million dogs in Beijing, only around 450,000 were registered, the paper said.
In the southern city of Guangzhou, only 1000 of the city's 50,000 dogs were registered, it said.
China already implements a "one child family planning policy'' aimed at slowing the growth of its human population, which is the world's largest at 1.3 billion people.