The
male bog that bit President Adama Barrow’s 8-year-old son has been injected to
death by the veterinary officers at the Central Veterinary Clinic in Abuko,
yesterday.
Habib
Barrow, son of Sarjo Barrow, the second wife of President Barrow, was bitten by
the dog on 15 January and died a day after.
Veterinary
officers said they thought the dog had rabies, a vaccine-preventable viral
disease, but their studies revealed that it was healthy; had no rabies or any
other disease. It is only dogs with
rabies that bite people to death, veterinary officers said.
The
officers said the dog was humanely put to sleep (killed) with euthatal
injection, because it was not safe for it to be living in the community.
Mr
Barrow missed his son’s funeral as he was in Dakar, Senegal, and was advised to
remain there for it was during the height of the recently solved political
impasse that nearly plunged the country into war.
