Know any owners of exotic pets? There's yet another zoonosis, this time in the US of A. And it's a Monkeypox Outbreak in the midwest, the likely source being Prairie dogs.
At least the Vet Dept has the good sense to ban importation of prairie dogs into Malaysia.
I wonder why we have been afflicted with so many zoonoses of late. There was the Nipah outbreak. Then the SARS outbreak. Now this. But the little critters sure are cute aren't they...
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