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To: one_less who wrote (5206)	11/28/2006 3:39:15 AM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (2) of 10087

The government employs just 120 full-time inspectors to record and inspect arriving wildlife. There is no requirement they be trained to detect diseases. Ok, just set them up to fail us citizens! The CDC is in charge of human health and the quarantine of imported monkeys. -The Agriculture Department has primary responsibility for livestock health and the quarantining of wild bird imports and wild cud-chewing animals. -The Fish and Wildlife Service is charged with stopping smuggled wildlife and enforcing laws that protect exotic and endangered species. "The three agencies don't work together," said Cathy Johnson-Delaney, a veterinarian who advised the Agriculture Department during the early 1990s. "We should be screening all critters coming into the U.S. We aren't doing this." Sounds familiar, doesn't it..Why should I be amazed when anecdotally, on my part, it's lack of communication among departments or agencies that comes up as the primary reason so many well-intentioned projects fail.. I'll take a koala post 6 months of quarantine and testing-g-

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