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Hares killed by disease found for first time in Cyprus
By Natalie Hami Published on June 17, 2012
HUNTERS have found dead hares in all parts of the island that died from a disease that has been seen here for the first time.
A number of hares that died from the fatal disease pseudotuberculosis were found in all districts of the island recently except for Famagusta, according to an announcement by the Game Fund.
The Game Fund located a number of dead hares during the January to April 2012 hunting period. From these hares around six were good enough to conduct a post-mortem on, from which it was discovered they died from pseudotuberculosis.
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?The disease can potentially be transmitted to humans that?s why we wanted to let people know and advise them that they should cook the hares very well and if they notice that the intestines are a strange colour they should not eat them,? Game Fund official Petros Anayiotos told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
He also stressed that hunters should under no circumstances feed the intestines to their dogs or the disease will be transmitted to them. ?If their dogs do transmit it they?ll know at some point from the dog?s appearance as they will tend to lose weight,? said Anayiotos.
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http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/hares-killed-disease-found-first-time-cyprus/20120617
By Natalie Hami Published on June 17, 2012
HUNTERS have found dead hares in all parts of the island that died from a disease that has been seen here for the first time.
A number of hares that died from the fatal disease pseudotuberculosis were found in all districts of the island recently except for Famagusta, according to an announcement by the Game Fund.
The Game Fund located a number of dead hares during the January to April 2012 hunting period. From these hares around six were good enough to conduct a post-mortem on, from which it was discovered they died from pseudotuberculosis.
...
?The disease can potentially be transmitted to humans that?s why we wanted to let people know and advise them that they should cook the hares very well and if they notice that the intestines are a strange colour they should not eat them,? Game Fund official Petros Anayiotos told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
He also stressed that hunters should under no circumstances feed the intestines to their dogs or the disease will be transmitted to them. ?If their dogs do transmit it they?ll know at some point from the dog?s appearance as they will tend to lose weight,? said Anayiotos.
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Full text:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/hares-killed-disease-found-first-time-cyprus/20120617