Surin village declared rabies zone after death of teacher

By The Nation

 

A village in Surin province has been declared a rabies control zone after a teacher, who had been caring for street dogs in her community, died of rabies.

 

Saowanee Chokchatree, 59, was admitted to Surin Hospital on Friday and died three days later. She was found to have contracted rabies.

 

Following her death, the Surin Livestock Office declared her village, Phorang, a rabies control zone earlier this week and dispatched a team of officials to vaccinate all dogs and cats in the community. Local residents were also told to quarantine their pet dogs and cats until the office could ascertain the disease was under control.

 

Following the cremation ceremony, the teacher’s husband, Boonsuan Chokchtree, 61, said his wife loved animals. She had raised five dogs and had been feeding stray dogs around the community in Tambon Naimueang in the province’s Muang district.

 

On Friday, she suffered from stiffness in her jaws and had to spit out saliva all the time. She was afraid of water so he rushed her to the hospital but it was too late.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30337121

 

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R.I.P   Saowanee Chokchatree   proof positive of the phrase "no good deed goes unpunished"

Well kind hearted of them declaring that upon a persons death their is nothing to worry about

 

BUT THEY FORGOT ONE THING - THE CAUSE - THOSE DAMN DOGS !! 

Quite a lot of irony there. Sorry to hear the lady died in such a horrible way. But also wonder how many puppies were spawned from her feeding the strays. Best way to spread rabies is to increase the feral dog population.

Please, I have been assured by many on TV that Thai dogs don't have rabies 

Sad to see.

The Government policy to protect dogs from cruelty was needed, but they have not addressed the problem of breeding. our village now has over 100+ dogs and they are out of control now joining packs and villagers are scared to go anywhere at night. They have complained and nothing is done. It maybe well not to hurt or kill dogs but the Government needs to control breeding. If someone wants a dog it should be gated not roaming free to breed.

23 hours ago, webfact said:

a rabies control zone

 

More like a rabies out-of-control zone.

They found a Rabid dog in Nonsawan this week too.  Be careful out there.