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Travel Daily News
26-05-2025
- Travel Daily News
PETA: Tourists at risk of contracting MERS from cruel camel rides
PETA issues urgent travel advisory urging tourists to avoid camel contact in the Middle East amid MERS outbreak and documented animal cruelty. HONG KONG – Amid an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia, PETA is issuing an urgent travel advisory warning visitors to the region to avoid all contact with camels, including those who are forced to give rides to humans at tourist sites – for both their own safety and the animals' well-being. The move follows a warning from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection that any camel-related activities in the Middle East – including riding them or consuming their flesh or milk – risks transmitting the potentially fatal disease, as camels are 'known reservoirs' of the virus. In addition to the danger posed to humans, PETA investigations have documented that camels used for rides and photo ops at tourist sites like the pyramids of Giza are violently and routinely beaten by their handlers. At Egypt's notorious Birqash Camel Market, a dead camel was tied by their feet to a truck and dragged through the streets and another was found dead in the middle of a road with their throat slashed open. When camels were no longer considered useful, they were often hauled to a slaughterhouse, where their throats were slit while they were still conscious. 'Cruelty and contagions run rampant at these shameful attractions, where camels are mercilessly beaten, worked until they drop, and violently killed in filthy slaughterhouses,' says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. 'PETA's urgent travel advisory is meant to protect both tourists and the camels who are exploited for rides from suffering and dying prematurely.' PETA points out that in addition to MERS, the majority of diseases that have caused epidemics or pandemics in recent years originated in animals before being transmitted to humans – including AIDS, avian flu, swine flu, SARS, Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19. PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that 'animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way'– opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
Free Malaysia Today
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Malaysians advised against travel to India, Pakistan
India fired missiles into Pakistani-occupied territory at several locations today. (AP pic) PETALING JAYA : The Malaysian high commissions in New Delhi and Islamabad have issued travel advisories for India and Pakistan following the most intense clash between the nuclear-armed nations in over 20 years. India launched missile strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir today, while Pakistan announced it had shot down five Indian aircraft and pledged to retaliate. 'The high commission strongly advises a prompt postponement of all non-essential travel to India, especially to Indian states bordering Pakistan,' said the Malaysian High Commission in New Delhi, in a Facebook post. 'This includes travel for holidays or other non-urgent purposes.' The High Commission of Malaysia in Islamabad said it is actively liaising with local authorities to obtain further information and ensure the safety of Malaysians in the country. 'Due to the volatile situation, Malaysian citizens are advised to defer unnecessary travel to Pakistan,' it said. Malaysians in both countries have been urged to register with the respective high commissions. Malaysians may contact the High Commission of Malaysia in New Delhi at +90 11 2415 9300/+90 11 2415 9311 and +90 85 9555 0564, or through email; mwdelhi@ Malaysians may contact the High Commission of Malaysia in Islamabad at +92512072900 ext 123 or 125, or through email; mwislamabad@ India today reported targeting nine 'terrorist infrastructure' locations, some allegedly connected to last month's militant attack on Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir, which left 26 people dead. Pakistan stated that at least 26 people were killed today and accused India of 'setting the region ablaze', according to Reuters.
