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Egypt - Fear of viral diseases affects prices in pet markets

Sally Furniss

Well-known member
Wear the emergence of the deadly viral disease that affects domestic animals and move them to rights, such as: bird flu, swine, horses, dogs and cats finally negatively on the pet market in Egypt, and prices declined steadily, and in order to eliminate many of the animals they keep at their homes, fearing to convey the disease.
Director of one of animal welfare groups in Egypt Amina Abaza, stressed that ?the General recently received numerous contacts from people wishing to get rid of their animals at any price, for fear of being hurt diseases, also received the General numbers of horses, donkeys, horses were infected with influenza and treated with medication cough ?.

Abaza and demanded to compel traders Pttaimha animals and conduct periodic inspection by, especially as the low vaccination rates, while generating huge profits of the trade - it says - that ability to unofficial statistics, one billion dollars a year, noting that the dog vaccinated against rabies, for example, more than Aitklv 18 Egyptian pounds, while the price of a dog for less than 1000 pounds.
Abaza and advised each purchaser of a pet make sure there's the animal veterinary certificate proving the safety and health and free of disease after its purchase, preferably in the purchase of accredited and famous places in the sale, the market is not random.
Veterinarian Essam Ramadan, the number of diseases that affect animals and can be transmitted to humans by about 120 disease, the most dangerous ?to Tksublazema?, a disease of cats and affects pregnant women to limit abortion in the first months of pregnancy in case of transmission of the disease and can also cause blindness, counseled not to contact with animals, especially after the spread of illness ?avian flu and swine?.
Ruled out the Director of Veterinary Medicine in Cairo, Dr. Saleh Al-Kholi impact of the disease on the pet market, although that could be dangerous caused by the circulation of animals and birds at random, warning of blind imitation of the American communities in animal husbandry, animal husbandry advising outside the home, not inside, because this ultimate risk.
Kholi said for ?opinion? We ?organize campaigns to raise awareness of the necessity of cleanliness and safety of animals in order to ensure the safety of contact with human beings, especially children and pregnant women because they are more vulnerable to animal diseases, and we have a plan in the glass quarantine land and sea ports and the Egyptian Air not to allow any animal or bird to enter or exit until after the new veterinary certificate to prove safety ?.
While some stressed the animal market is not affected by disease, influenza, but stressed that the traders of animals for ?opinion? low sales, and prices drop to more than half - in the words of Mohamed Essam, a pet dealers in Maadi district ?south of Cairo,?, He emphasized that many people are in a state of fear of exposure to pets, some even a handkerchief over his mouth and nose when you pass in front of his shop.
He stressed that the Issam ?demand fell on cats and dogs, and birds of different kinds prices have fallen by half and increased return rates ornamental fish!?.
But Hani Mahdi - dealer bath market area Friday Mrs. Aisha - confirmed the sale and purchase in the bathroom was not affected because the bathroom did not appear any cases of avian flu, he said in remarks for ?opinion? bird prices rose overall, with the price of ornamental bath 50 pounds to 75 pounds per pair The bathroom municipal fetching up to 15 pounds.
He pointed out that ?from fear of the disease are a few of the upper classes, dealing with immunization, vaccination and refusing to buy animals without a veterinary certificate or license, and often active market dogs in the winter and demand is more on small dogs in the age and species that are popular in market Alrot Fire and Black Jack and Wolof German, and prices by gender and age ?.
While some traders that the market is not affected by anything, because the acquisition of dogs and cats are part of the life of keepers could not be easily dispensed with, it is sometimes a passionate and obsessive - as described Salah Ibrahim, a wholesale dogs and cats - which emphasized that the ?client? People's accused him of the issue diseases do not fear them, but who checks in when you are buying people's understanding and upper classes, where each of them keen to vaccination and to detect any animal when you buy it, as well as customers Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Libya, Sudan and some foreigners, adding that ?prices ranging from 100 dogs thousand pounds to 20 pounds according to gender and age, and the Egyptian street dogs do not worth anything to us, but they represent a lot of others such as shepherds ?.

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