Spanish officials Euthanize nurses pet dog

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Spanish Officials Threaten to Euthanize Dog of Ebola Patient


The husband of a Spanish nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola is in a battle to save the couple's dog — after reportedly receiving a request from Madrid health officials that the dog be euthanized.

Javier Limon Romero, whose wife Teresa Romeo recently tested positive for Ebola, posted a plea for the dog's life to the Facebook page of Villa Pepa Protective Association, a Spanish animal protection organization. In the post, he describes a request from health officials that he allow for his dog to be euthanized while the dog is in quarantine.

According to Limon Romero's own account, his dog has been left in his apartment while his wife is being treated for the Ebola virus, which she contracted while working as a nurse in a Madrid hospital.



Here's a translation of the post:


Hello, my name is Javier Limon Romero, I'm the husband of Teresa Romero Ramos, the nurse infected with Ebola for treating voluntarily two infected patients who were sent back to Spain.

I want to publicly denounce a man named Zarco, whom I believe is the chief health officer of the Community of Madrid, told me that they have to sacrifice my dog just like that, with no explanation. He asked for my consent, which I denied strongly. He said that they will ask for a court order to enter in my house and sacrifice the dog.

Before going to the hospital, I left the dog a few buckets of water, and the bathtub also with water, as well as a bag of food of 15kg so that he'd have food and water. I also left the door to the balcony open so that he can take care of his needs.

I think it's unfair that for a mistake they made they now want to solve it this way.

A dog should not be contagious to a person and vice versa. If they are so worried with this issue I think we can find another type of alternative solutions, such as quarantining the dog and put him under observation like they did with me. Or should they sacrifice me as well just in case?



In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Limon Romero said that health officials told him "that if I do not give my consent, they will seek a court order and go into the house by force to kill the dog." Limon Romero is currently under quarantine

A Change.org petition asking that the dog be spared had received tens of thousands of signatures by Wednesday afternoon.

Three other people have been placed under quarantine after the nurse tested positive for the deadly virus. She is believed to be the first person to have contracted the Ebola virus while outside of Africa.

More than 50 others are being monitored as experts attempt to figure out why Spain's anti-infection practices failed. Health authorities are investigating how the nursing assistant, part of a special team that cared for a Spanish priest who died of Ebola last month, became infected.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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How about the intellectual giants that thought it was a good idea to allow the infected out of Africa?

Idiocracy for real

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/ebola-just-freaking-take-peoples-temperatures-at-our-airports-already-you-morons_102014

the 3 Stooges could be doing a better job

From what I've read, dogs don't carry it for long. Once the virus has cleared from it's system, it's not contagious anymore. Just quarantine the little guy like you would for rabies.

jacksdad wrote: From what I've read, dogs don't carry it for long. Once the virus has cleared from it's system, it's not contagious anymore. Just quarantine the little guy like you would for rabies.

We can't contain Ebola in humans, in a modern hospital, of course we can contain Ebola in a wee dog!

All those doctors who would never go to Africa, but would love the opportunity to study Ebola here. That it could be contained in a modern hospital, thinking of the advances in knowledge in Ebola. With oh so little risk.   ...

They were wrong!

Its that 10th man syndrome thing again. I will go to the corner put on my tinfoil hat and take my meds. Thanks,

Despite what you're thinking right now - my motivation is to keep you around for a long time. You're a valuable member here, and I'd hate to see you go the way of the 5500 members who didn't run the course since AFT started. This place (and prepping in general) can chew people up and spit them out if they let it. Typically each member is the only family member here because everyone else thinks they're crazy and paranoid, so several lives may depend on them staying, learning, and prepping until it's needed.

Are Animal Control Officers and Veterinarians dying of ebola in Africa?

KiwiMum wrote: I'm for isolating the dog in a scientific capacity and finding out exactly how long a dog remains contagious and then returning it to its owner.

Fairest answer, safest answer in the long term. 

I do agree with euthanising that stupid official though, and the idiots who refused to test the nurse for ebola for DAYS!

Sadly the official will walk, may even get a promotion and no one in power will listen to KiwiMum.  No one ever listens when people talk sense from outside the clique of those in power.

incompetent government can't supply Spanish hospital workers with proper PPE

but they can kill your dog

yeah

sounds about right for government 

incompetent ,corrupt,and callous 

As a person who grew up and was in the immediate family vicinity of a person who personally euthanized, early on via vacuum chamber and then by lethal injection, 40,000, -yes, forty thousand, dogs and cats, I feel I can speak a bit to this subject. Almost none of those pets were ill or terminally ill. They were put down, or "to sleep" as it is called simply because no one came forward to claim or adopt them in the vary narrow window of being available. It is chokingly sad as I think back many years. I personally witnessed on multiple occasions from start to finish the death tanks operation as a child, with as many as a dozen dogs and cats together taking their dying breaths. It is what he was, as a civil servant, charged to do. No one else there wanted to do it. He did not either but he had a family to feed. He is also the same person who sold a little muttly puppy that was just about to be euthanized himself, to a certain dog trainer who named him Benji. I wished I could have seen this Espana dog spared somehow. To so many of us our pets are more human than human. To this innocent dog/pet, we are just human, all too human.