Chinese Cities Intensify Dog Control

NANJING, CHINA - JANUARY 10: (CHINA OUT) A stray dog seized by policemen looks out of its cage on a police car on January 10, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. The city has launched a campaign to remove stray dogs from its streets. According to state media, China has intensified dog control as rabies cases increased in 2006. Rabies has killed more people in China than either tuberculosis or AIDS in each of the preceding seven months last year, the Health Ministry said, prompting a crackdown in the capital and several provinces to control unregistered dogs. In the first nine months of 2006, the health ministry recorded 2,254 rabies infections in people, up 26.69 percent on the same period in 2005. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
NANJING, CHINA - JANUARY 10: (CHINA OUT) A stray dog seized by policemen looks out of its cage on a police car on January 10, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. The city has launched a campaign to remove stray dogs from its streets. According to state media, China has intensified dog control as rabies cases increased in 2006. Rabies has killed more people in China than either tuberculosis or AIDS in each of the preceding seven months last year, the Health Ministry said, prompting a crackdown in the capital and several provinces to control unregistered dogs. In the first nine months of 2006, the health ministry recorded 2,254 rabies infections in people, up 26.69 percent on the same period in 2005. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
Chinese Cities Intensify Dog Control
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