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(summary) It is followed by the enactment of the (There is no exception)stray cat feeding ban,ordinance , In the United States.The city of Anaheim has enacted a new code that makes it illegal for residents to feed feral cats. The city of Anaheim also has adopted an inhumane policy regarding the potential euthanizing of cats in colonies over 30. The city is saying they plan to implement 'monitoring and capture' of cats in large colonies. This means they may 'trap and kill'. Therefore, TNR of Disneyland is illegal.
上記のように、TNR(に伴う餌やりが対象ですが)を懲役刑もありうる厳しい罰則規定で禁じる条例を2015年に施行したアナハイム市ですが、アナハイム市の市民団体は、本条例を歓迎しています。本条例を支持する理由の一つに、「TNRで寄せ集めた猫の集団は、感染症を周辺住民にもたらす。特に発疹チフスは野良猫が感染源となる可能性が極めて高い」ことを挙げています。 本団体は、TNR活動を行っていた、オレンジ・カウンティー市が、「TNRの活動開始~野良猫の増大と集中を招く~それらの野良猫に寄生するノミが発疹チフス感染増大をもたらした」としています。また、アナハイム市における発疹チフス感染例も、野良猫が原因であることに言及しています。以下に、本団体のHPの記事を引用します。 なお本記事は、アナハイム市の野良猫給餌を厳格に禁じる条例の停止を求める署名に大しての反論です(署名サイト:Stop the Starvation of Community Cats of Disneyland and Anaheim!)。
Section 6.44.010 of the Anaheim Municipal Code relates to ‘NUISANCES” and prohibits a number of activities and forms of negligence that impact the wider community, animal excrement or fecal material, uneaten food or food wastes. One of these prohibitions concerns the feeding of feral cats . .1301 It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally provide food, water, or other forms of sustenance to a feral cat or feral cat colony within the boundaries of the City. Feral Cats DO Pose A Public Health Risk. Flea-borne (endemic) typhus is carried by the common cat flea, which is found primarily on feral cats, raccoon and opossums. As of 2013 Anaheim had the fourth highest number of reported cases of people infected by flea-borne typhus. A few years ago, an employee at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Theo Lacy jail facility became very seriously ill and had to hospitalized thanks to being bitten by a flea carried by feral cats. As it turned out, another OCSD non-sworn employee was feeding a colony of feral cats. Naturally, these wild cats increasingly congregated there, bringing their fleas with them. The employee refused to stop feeding the cats, despite being warned of the public health nuisance it was creating. Ultimately, another jail employee was bitten by a typhus-carrying common cat flea and wound up seriously ill and requiring lengthy hospitalization. The city ought to forthrightly explain that there is a public health risk associated with feral cats, and that people who intentionally feed and sustain feral cat colonies are potentially endangering the health of their neighbors.
Murine typhus (also called endemic typhus) is a form of typhus transmitted by fleas , usually on rats.
Rats, cats, possums maintain the rickettsia colonization by providing it with a host for its entire life cycle.
Rats can develop the infection, and help spread the infection to other fleas that infect them, and help multiply the number of infected fleas that can then infect humans.