00:00A few more dogs will be brought to Nueva Ecija to be slaughtered.
00:12The look of the dogs slaughtered in Saco is pitiful.
00:15They are exhausted and have difficulty breathing.
00:17According to the Animal Kingdom Foundation,
00:20they want to stop this kind of behavior.
00:23Today, again, the National Forum called for a group
00:26to open dog meat trade in the country.
00:31Due to the high cases of rabies,
00:34the people of Boac and Buenavista are in a state of calamity in Marinduque.
00:38Two people died in the province due to rabies,
00:41which was also seen in their pigs and cows.
00:44Tina Panganiban-Perez has the report.
00:48In the Animal Disease Investigation,
00:50the reported rabies cases in the animals in Marinduque are almost ten.
00:55More than 40 are positive in the lab test.
00:58Two individuals died due to rabies.
01:15Not only dogs and cats,
01:17two cows and three pigs tested positive for rabies in the province.
01:21Even a Philippine brown deer tested positive for rabies.
01:24It is said that rabies cannot be spread to other animals.
01:40According to the Department of Agriculture,
01:42no one has been diagnosed with rabies
01:46because of eating infected animals.
01:49The Department of Health said
01:51rabies is rare in eating.
02:17The Agriculture Department is not lying
02:20about eating infected meat.
02:40Tina Panganiban-Perez reporting for GMA Integrated News.
02:46A New Corellia, Davao del Norte resident was infected with rabies.
02:50But he was not bitten, but was fed dog meat.
02:53According to the Rural Health Unit of New Corellia,
02:56they examined the victim after he was diagnosed with rabies on October 24.
03:02He confessed to eating dog meat.
03:04He was brought to Davao Regional Medical Center
03:07and died of viral encephalitis due to rabies.
03:11Victims and dogs in their area were taken care of.
03:16Aside from the illegal slaughter and sale of dog meat,
03:20the DOH also issued a warning not to eat dog meat to avoid rabies.
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