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Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...IES-outbreak-as-disease-sweeps-through-lax-EU
Britain on brink of RABIES outbreak as disease sweeps through 'lax' EU
THE safety of the EU?s controversial ?pet passport? scheme has been seriously questioned after two rabies-infected puppies from eastern Europe were found less than 200 miles from Britain...
...They are urging ministers to ?wake up? to the danger, saying the Dutch case is ?far too close for comfort?.
The four-month-old puppies were brought to the Netherlands from Bulgaria on October 5.
They were from the same litter and had appeared to be travelling with the correct paperwork.
Both had also been microchipped, as per the EU?s rules.
One was found in Zaandam, a town just outside the Dutch capital Amsterdam, and the other was in Rotterdam, some 50 miles south.
They both began displaying symptoms of rabies on October 10 and were put down eight days later...
Britain on brink of RABIES outbreak as disease sweeps through 'lax' EU
THE safety of the EU?s controversial ?pet passport? scheme has been seriously questioned after two rabies-infected puppies from eastern Europe were found less than 200 miles from Britain...
...They are urging ministers to ?wake up? to the danger, saying the Dutch case is ?far too close for comfort?.
The four-month-old puppies were brought to the Netherlands from Bulgaria on October 5.
They were from the same litter and had appeared to be travelling with the correct paperwork.
Both had also been microchipped, as per the EU?s rules.
One was found in Zaandam, a town just outside the Dutch capital Amsterdam, and the other was in Rotterdam, some 50 miles south.
They both began displaying symptoms of rabies on October 10 and were put down eight days later...