This is outrageous. There are laws that demand any animal coming into the USA to be quarantined for at least six months. Why is there any danger? It doesn't make sense if the law is being followed and enforced.
An animal activist sits inside a van with dogs he bought at a market in Yulin city in southern China's Guangxi province in June 2016.
A growing number of livestock veterinarians (click here) are raising concerns that dogs rescued from Chinese meat markets could bring African swine fever virus to the United States.
Rescue groups regularly save dogs from slaughter in China and transport them to this country to be adopted as pets. But because such dogs are considered food animals in China, they often are kept in close quarters with other livestock.
That means they can easily come in contact with pigs infected with the disease, which is rampant in China.
"These dogs are rescued from meat markets," said Lisa Becton, director of swine health information and research at the National Pork Board. "And, unfortunately, at these markets there are a lot of other species, like pigs, chickens and cows. There is a risk that the animal, the crate or the bedding could become contaminated."...
