"Experts say dogs will not get sick but could transmit to humans by biting"
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"Dogs are digging up the corpses of Ebola victims buried in shallow graves in Liberia and eating them in the street, villagers have claimed.
Furious residents of Johnsonville Township, outside capital Monrovia, raised the alarm after packs of wild dogs were spotted digging up corpses from a specially-designated 'Ebola graveyard', dragging them into the open and feeding on their flesh.
It is the latest development in the epidemic, which was today confirmed to have reached Senegal.
The grisly scenes in Liberia came three weeks after government health officials - desperate to stem the country's rising infection rate - hurriedly buried the bodies despite a heated standoff with villagers who refused to give their permission to use the land.
But rather than resolve the dispute, Liberia's Ministry of Health burial team dug the graves at night to avoid further confrontation, making the infected bodies easy targets for scavengers, villagers say"
Aren't the bodies supposed to be cremated? Do they still not have fuel?
Not only very grim, very dangerous but also highly disrespectful and demoralizing.
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"After epidemiologist Eric Leroy saw dogs scavenge the bloody remains of hunting expeditions in the jungles of the African country of Gabon, he wondered if they could contract the deadly Ebola virus. Some 439 blood samples later, Leroy’s fears were confirmed. Dogs—especially rural dogs—carry Ebola antibodies, proof that they were exposed to the virus before developing an apparent immunity. “If the dog can be infected, it can excrete the virus for a few days,” he says. “During this time it can be itself infectious for the human community living near the dogs.”
Ebola Hunters Turn to Dogs
By Anne Casselman|Sunday, July 24, 2005
http://discovermagazine.com/2005/jul/ebola-hunters
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"Dogs are digging up the corpses of Ebola victims buried in shallow graves in Liberia and eating them in the street, villagers have claimed.
Furious residents of Johnsonville Township, outside capital Monrovia, raised the alarm after packs of wild dogs were spotted digging up corpses from a specially-designated 'Ebola graveyard', dragging them into the open and feeding on their flesh.
It is the latest development in the epidemic, which was today confirmed to have reached Senegal.
The grisly scenes in Liberia came three weeks after government health officials - desperate to stem the country's rising infection rate - hurriedly buried the bodies despite a heated standoff with villagers who refused to give their permission to use the land.
But rather than resolve the dispute, Liberia's Ministry of Health burial team dug the graves at night to avoid further confrontation, making the infected bodies easy targets for scavengers, villagers say"
Aren't the bodies supposed to be cremated? Do they still not have fuel?
Not only very grim, very dangerous but also highly disrespectful and demoralizing.
===============================
"After epidemiologist Eric Leroy saw dogs scavenge the bloody remains of hunting expeditions in the jungles of the African country of Gabon, he wondered if they could contract the deadly Ebola virus. Some 439 blood samples later, Leroy’s fears were confirmed. Dogs—especially rural dogs—carry Ebola antibodies, proof that they were exposed to the virus before developing an apparent immunity. “If the dog can be infected, it can excrete the virus for a few days,” he says. “During this time it can be itself infectious for the human community living near the dogs.”
Ebola Hunters Turn to Dogs
By Anne Casselman|Sunday, July 24, 2005
http://discovermagazine.com/2005/jul/ebola-hunters