[Pinkbell]

I don’t know a lot about ebola, so I’m serious in asking, was it necessary? Can animals and people pass it back and forth?

[Segovia]

people got it from some kind of apes, which got it from fruit bats-——— so, I’m seeing an epizootic.

[exDemMom]

I don’t know a lot about ebola, so I’m serious in asking, was it necessary? Can animals and people pass it back and forth?

I don't think it was necessary. Dogs do get Ebola--from eating corpses during outbreaks. They have never been shown to carry Ebola.

I wonder if the nurse took a turn for the worst after losing her precious dog--not from a natural cause, but from murder. Such a loss is difficult at the best of times, and she was not in a stable condition to begin with.

The dog could have been quarantined, if Spanish health officials were worried that it could have caught Ebola. No need to kill the poor beast.

[Smokin' Joe]

Dogs around the hot zone of one of the outbreaks in Africa were tested, and roughly 38% showed seropositive for the virus. They remain asymptomatic and could function as a carrier.

As gross as it is, dogs were seen eating corpses (dogs are scavengers/hunters in nature) in the slum areas during the lockdown (West Point slum), and see dead human as just another source of meat if they are hungry.

Sad to say, but assuming contact with the owner, euthanizing the dog is the prudent thing to do.