{"id":23070,"date":"2018-10-15T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23070"},"modified":"2018-10-15T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:17:11","slug":"putting-an-end-to-rabies-in-miri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23070","title":{"rendered":"Putting an end to rabies in Miri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miri city is all geared up against rabies as it continued with free\u00a0mass rabies vaccination programme held during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 866 dogs being vaccinated in the two-day campaign by\u00a0Veterinary Services Department on Saturday and Sunday at three\u00a0locations, Taman Awam Miri, Lutong Basketball Court and Taman Bulatan\u00a0in Pujut, from 9am to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Divisional veterinary officer Dr Sylmie Al-Harir revealed that more\u00a0pet owners turned up on\u00a0 Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>At Taman Awam Miri recorded the highest number of dogs vaccinated on\u00a0both days, 164 on Saturday and 208 the following day, while Taman\u00a0Bulatan in Pujut recorded the lowest with 58 and 116 on Saturday and\u00a0Sunday respectively. In Lutong Basketball Court there was an increase\u00a0of dogs vaccinated from 141 on Saturday to 179 on Sunday. Since the\u00a0programme started, about 10,000 dogs has been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sylmie urged those who had missed the chance to vaccinate their\u00a0dogs during the campaign to do so at the Veterinary Services\u00a0Department at Pelita Commercial Centre, which operates from 8.30am to\u00a04.30pm on weekdays.<\/p>\n<p>Pet owners can participate in the upcoming free mass rabies\u00a0vaccination programme, which will take place at Permyjaya Tudan and\u00a0Desa Senadin, next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Piasau State Assemblyman, Datuk Sebastian Ting had called\u00a0to all Miriams to join force to eliminate rabies from Miri. He said by\u00a0doing so, they can bring their pets for vaccination, kept them indoors\u00a0and not to abandon them. Those who did not want unwanted puppies\u00a0should spay their dog.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23071\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7720.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23071\" alt=\"Datuk Sebastain during one of the vaccination programs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7720-285x300.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7720-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7720-973x1024.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7720.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Datuk Sebastain during one of the vaccination programs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miri city is all geared up against rabies as it continued with free\u00a0mass rabies vaccination programme held during the weekend. A total of 866 dogs being vaccinated in the two-day campaign by\u00a0Veterinary Services Department on Saturday and Sunday at three\u00a0locations, Taman Awam Miri, Lutong Basketball Court and Taman Bulatan\u00a0in Pujut, from 9am to 4pm. Divisional veterinary officer Dr Sylmie Al-Harir revealed that more\u00a0pet owners turned up on\u00a0 Sunday. At Taman Awam Miri recorded the highest number of dogs vaccinated on\u00a0both days, 164 on Saturday and 208 the following day, while<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23070\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23072,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions\/23072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}