Passport changes

Re: Passport changes

Kay Colquhoun — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:45:15 GMT

There are some advice pages on the BSAVA website - http://www.bsava.com/Advice/PetTravel/tabid/172/Default.aspx

And this now includes a 'frequently asked questions' section - http://www.bsava.com/Advice/PetTravel/FAQs/tabid/1441/Default.aspx

Our Pet Travel pages are in development and we hope to add to the useful material available there between now and the new rules coming into place January 2012.

Re: Passport changes

Stephen Courtney — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:27:14 GMT

It's only one of many vague possibilities. The 'precautions' are ineffective. The risks are tiny and it is impossible to prove that the tapeworm is currently absent from the UK. Human hydatid disease is very rare in Europe, a few cases in the last decade. Certainly no justification for making busy people drive around finding a vet in a foreign port to treat their pet and sign and stamp the passport within a rigid and arbitrary timeframe.

There is no basis for continuing the tapeworm treatment in science, however you will be pleased to know that the tapeworm treatment requirement is not yet 100% definitely cancelled. A decision on this will be forthcoming at some stage, however it is likely that the requirement will go.

Whatever you feel about the EU, the political drive for modernisation of UK laws pertaining to the movement of pets in and out of this country has been beneficial. this new development will be beneficial too.

Re: Passport changes

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:11:34 GMT

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[quote user="Stephen Courtney"]I would advise colleagues to brush up on things like babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, heart worm, leishmaniasis andf transm,issible venereal tumour - youa re far far more likley to see these than rabies. Or echinococcus.[/quote]

Well yeah, that's the point. We won't see the echinococcus but the doctors will eventually see the hydatid disease.

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Disagree. it's RARE - even in Europe.

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Doesn't mean the "EU" should order us not to take precautions.

Re: Passport changes

Stephen Courtney — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:37:01 GMT

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Well yeah, that's the point. We won't see the echinococcus but the doctors will eventually see the hydatid disease.

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Disagree. it's RARE - even in Europe.

Re: Passport changes

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:40:53 GMT

Well yeah, that's the point. We won't see the echinococcus but the doctors will eventually see the hydatid disease.

Re: Passport changes

Stephen Courtney — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:22:44 GMT

Oh, one other thing, the new rules come in from 1st January 2012. It hasn't started yet, and the current rules still hold, but some animals will be able to either leave quarantine early or will have their 6 month blood test wait cut short.

Re: Passport changes

Stephen Courtney — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:20:14 GMT

You might be interested to know that praziquantel is not particularly effective at dealing with echinococcus, and that NOBODY knows how prevalent hydatid disease in humans in Europe is, or what the prevalence of Echinococcus in dogs and cats in Europe is. the reason we are likely to lose the current derogation is because it cannot be backed up by science ie there is no evidence it is of the slightest benefit other than the theoretical. In addition we cannot prove that echinococcus isn't already here - you have to literally scrape the gut lining to find the little buggers.

Of far more significance are things like heartworm and leishmaniasis, which have never been a concern of the current pet passport system.

I would advise colleagues to brush up on things like babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, heart worm, leishmaniasis andf transm,issible venereal tumour - youa re far far more likley to see these than rabies. Or echinococcus.

Re: Passport changes

Laurence Webb — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:40:02 GMT

"harmonization of disease" Great phrase!!!!!

Re: Passport changes

Niall Taylor — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:42:58 GMT

There's already a threat about this here - http://www.vetsurgeon.org/forums/t/8614.aspx

Niall

oops, meant to say Thread - Freudian slip