Being Green - 02 Aug 24 _First seal vaccinated for rabies in Cape Town

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Scientists and officials gathered in Cape Town last week to discuss what they know about the rabies outbreak in Cape Fur Seals and what to do about it. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to one of the delegates, Dr Tess Gridley, co-director of Sea Search, which is a collective of marine mammal scientists, who told her that selective vaccination of seals got underway on Thursday. The City of Cape Town has warned people to steer clear from any seal behaving unusually or aggressively and to report such cases to the authorities on:
2 Aug English South Africa Health & Fitness

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