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Stray dog menace on the rise

— PHOTO: N. BASHKARAN

Danger lurks: Stray dogs on the prowl on Chennai Road in Krishnagiri.

Krishnagiri: Stray dog menace in Krishnagiri is on the rise that on an average as many as 10 persons are being treated for dog bites every day at the Krishnagiri Government Hospital. The dogs which roam in groups in most of the residential areas have become a real threat to passers by.

Rampant complaints of them chasing children and inflicting bites on them also loom large. With sterilization of dogs proving costly authorities are at a loss on how to tackle this problem.

As per the records maintained at the Krishnagiri Government Hospital during October and November a total of 112 and 80 fresh cases of dog bites have been reported so far.

All of them have been provided with the prescribed course of Anti Rabies Vaccine (ARI).

However, all the cases treated at the GH does not confine only to street dog bites but also through the dogs grown at home.

Hospital sources maintain that even the few cases that come up at the GH is referred to hospitals in Bangalore since there exists no facilities like isolation room to lodge such patients.

According to a senior doctor, prevention is the best defence against rabies since the virus on entering the body will plant itself in the nervous system causing encephalomyelitis that is most always fatal.

Further since the gestation period of its affectations surface even after eight years and beyond, persons bitten by dogs and cats even if it has been vaccinated against rabies should immediately cleanse the wound with soapy water and seek immediate medical attention.

It is being pointed out by many that it was high time the municipality worked out a programme to secure the numerous stray dogs on the prowl in Krishnagiri, which were not vaccinated.

Uncared dogs pose a severe threat to the residents and the first preventive measure has to be taken up by the municipality and also by those who grow dogs as pets by providing it with due vaccination. It is hoped that the municipality will soon chalk out a more humane way of putting an end to the stray dog menace.

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