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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1987

ANIMAL WAS IMMEDIATELY BUT IT KENNEL FOR OBSERVATION

"AFTER THE BITING INCIDENT, THE BITER TAKEN TO THE SHEK WU HUI GOVERNMENT DIED THREE DAYS LATER.

CARCASS THE

CONDUCTED OF EXAMINATION "LABORATORY MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT CONFIRMED THIS AFTERNOON THAT IT

DR CHENG SAID. RABID ANIMAL,

BY THE WAS A

INCLUDING MASSIVE THE AREA SINCE

MEASURES CONTROL HE SAID STRINGENT RABIES STRAY SWEEPING OPERATIONS HAD BEEN STEPPED UP WITHIN THE OUTBREAK AT SHEK TAU WAI ON JUNE 19 AND WERE CONTINUING.

"UP TO YESTERDAY,

A TOTAL OF 659 STRAY DOGS

HE SAID. BEEN ROUNDED UP AND PUT DOWN,

AND 22

CATS

HAD

RABIES

CASE

SINCE

THE

RESURGENCE

OF THE

THIS IS THE 41ST DISEASE IN THE TERRITORY IN OCTOBER 1980.

EXISTING

THE WITHIN

NOT CONSIDERED

LAU TIN IS DR CHENG SAID THAT AS SHUI RABIES INFECTED AREA OF KAM TIN AND PAT HEUNG, IT WAS NECESSARY TO EXTEND THE RABIES INFECTED AREA BOUNDARIES.

IN THE SURRENDER STRAYS

HOWEVER, HE APPEALED TO THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY THOSE

FOR THEIR FULL CO-OPERATION TO AREAS INFECTED RABIES UNINOCULATED AND UNWANTED DOGS TO THE DEPARTMENT AND TO REPORT AS AND WHEN THEY ARE SIGHTED.

SCS SEES AFD'S WORK

MR

HARNAM GREWAL,

THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, (FRIDAY) MORNING VISITED THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT ACQUAINT HIMSELF WITH THE VARIOUS FACETS OF THE DEPARTMENT'S WORK.

THIS

ΤΟ

ON ARRIVAL AT THE DEPARTMENT'S HEADQUARTERS, HE WAS MET BY

DR

LEE, LAWRENCE AND FISHERIES, DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DR THOMAS YIP.

THE AND THE

FOUR

THE DEPARTMENT'S DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION; AND COUNTRY

OF

AND CONSERVATION

MR GREWAL WAS THEN TAKEN ON A TOUR

FOR RESPONSIBLE BRANCHES OPERATIONAL MARKETING AND FISHERIES; AGRICULTURE, PARKS MANAGEMENT.

/MR GREWAL