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Drug May Revolutionize Control of Dog Overpopulation
USA Today - July 22nd, 2011
Flagstaff, AZ - A scientist may have discovered a nonsurgical way to
sterilize dogs -- an advance that would revolutionize animal-shelter
medicine and address many states' canine-overpopulation problem in the
process, according to one veterinary expert.
Dr. Loretta Mayer was looking for a way to
artificially induce menopause in mice so they could be used to study
human diseases when she and another scientist developed a drug that they
realized also could be used to sterilize female dogs, removing the need
for painful and expensive surgery.
Although
the drug is years away from being approved by the Food and Drug
Administration, Mayer will soon return to India, where she has been
working to eradicate the spread of rabies in stray dogs there. CLICK HERE for Full Story
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