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...Spooked by a rash of rabies outbreaks?China is second only to India in the number of rabies cases - officials in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong and the southwestern province of Yunnan had turned dramatically against their canine populations. Instead of vaccinating people's pets to prevent further spread of the disease, local officials marched through village streets banging pots and pans. Whatever barking that ensued was quickly silenced by a bash to the dog's head. Bureaucrats in Yunnan's rural Mouding County reported that 54,429 dogs, or 99% of local canines, had been killed since July...
...roads, Hoffrichter and Provis (partners on the 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift) are alert but not alarmed. And with Ceduna being the first entry point for motorists coming from Western Australia, where Medfly has flourished since about 1900, they are in the frontline for any outbreaks, usually spread through egg-carrying fruit. A bin outside their hut overflows with confiscated produce; statewide, 45,000 kg were collected in the past six months. The low-tech operation is winning the war for South Australia's $250 million fruit and vegetable industry. "We're the only state free of fruit fly," says...
...last year raised $A5,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Considering the state of the rocky course spiked with grass (fairway 9 also doubles as a rifle range, but not on the same day), that says a lot about the town's ability to put on a party spread. Even the police are roped in for the occasion. "Before Golf Day, we had to pull all the weeds out of the greens," says Constable First Class Emma Mitten...
...Bush Administration seems to be finally coming out of its state of denial about the danger of sectarianism. For months, officials and military brass have doggedly maintained that the Shi'ite-on-Sunni sectarian killings were one-offs, unlikely to spread across the community. That posture began to change when Shi'ite mobs went on a murderous spree in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods after the Feb. 22 bombing of the Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. By the time U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his latest visit to Baghdad last month, the assessment was more realistic. General George Casey...
There was nothing particularly surprising about the international outrage over the reports of the wholesale slaughter of 50,000 dogs in rural China as part of a poorly executed campaign to curb the spread of rabies; some of the dogs, after all, were taken from their owners and beaten to death with sticks on the spot. China's official news agency has reported that up to half a million more dogs are expected to be exterminated in a separate cull over the next few days. "China's slaughter of dogs is a disproportionate, inhumane and ill response to rabies...