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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Exotic pets in U.S. may pose health risk
Exotic animals captured in the wild are streaming into the U.S. by the millions with little or no screening for disease, leaving Americans vulnerable to a virulent outbreak that could rival a terrorist act... More than 650 million critters — from kangaroos and kinkajous to iguanas and tropical fish — were imported legally into the United States in the past three years... Zoonotic diseases — those that jump to humans — account for three quarters of all emerging infectious threats... The Journal of Internal Medicine this month estimated that 50 million people worldwide have been infected with zoonotic diseases since 2000 and as many as 78,000 have died. (Read story here; includes many examples of specific problems and why the situation is likely to get worse in the USA)
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