{"id":1221559,"date":"2022-01-18T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1221559"},"modified":"2022-01-18T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:23:19","slug":"hong-kong-to-cull-2000-small-animals-after-hamster-gets-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hong-kong-to-cull-2000-small-animals-after-hamster-gets-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to Cull 2,000+ Small Animals After Hamster Gets Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhong-kong-to-cull-2000-small-animals-after-hamster-gets-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1221559&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Some 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, will be killed in Hong Kong after several tested positive for the coronavirus Monday at a pet store where an employee was also infected.<\/p>\n<p>AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hong-kong-covid-hamsters-animals-75f2d3507bdb8255cd2aee79e962fc35\">reports<\/a> Hong Kong authorities are not ruling out the possibility of transmission between animals and humans as reasoning behind the dramatic culling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot exclude the possibility that the shopkeeper was in fact actually infected from the hamsters,\u201d said Edwin Tsui, a controller at the Centre for Health Protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you own a hamster, you should keep your hamsters at home, do not take them out,\u201d department director Leung Siu-fai said at a news conference. \u201cAll pet owners should observe good personal hygiene, and after you have been in contact with animals and their food, you should wash your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not kiss your pets,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Communist China&#8217;s gruesome Yulin Dog Meat Festival continues unabated. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwRLvc5NgE\">https:\/\/t.co\/LwRLvc5NgE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1274673611740192768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hong Kong move against small pets follows a&nbsp;municipal health worker in south-eastern China\u2019s Shangrao city beating a woman\u2019s pet corgi to death with a crowbar while its owner was undergoing a state-run coronavirus quarantine outside her residence, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/15\/report-chinese-communists-beat-quarantined-womans-corgi-death\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a video interview with a local media outlet, the dog\u2019s owner, identified only by her surname Fu, said she witnessed the beating through an app on her phone connected to her home security camera and used a speaker embedded in the camera to beg the workers to leave her dog alone, but her pleas were ignored,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<\/em>(<em>WSJ<\/em>)&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-left-in-shock-following-brutal-killing-of-corgi-during-covid-19-disinfection-11636990026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">relayed<\/a>&nbsp;on November 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Fu said she heard the dog crying off-camera and later saw the workers carrying a yellow bag away after the whimpers stopped. Blood could be seen on the ground afterward, she said,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18764474\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/china-corgi-killed-health-workers-weibo-screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18764474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/china-corgi-killed-health-workers-weibo-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Report: Chinese Communists Beat Quarantined Woman\u2019s Corgi to Death\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chinese Communists beat a quarantined woman\u2019s corgi to death in November, 2021 (Screenshot)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hong Kong authorities have not detailed how they intend to kill the suspect animals it seeks in the former British colony.<\/p>\n<p>They simply said said all pet stores must stop selling hamsters and around 2,000 small mammals, including hamsters and chinchillas, will be killed in a humane manner.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who bought hamsters in Hong Kong from Dec. 22 will be subject to mandatory testing and are urged not contact others until their tests have returned negative. If their hamsters test positive, they will be subject to quarantine.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, will be killed in Hong Kong after several tested positive for the coronavirus Monday at a pet store where an employee was also infected. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}