Each year, Moslems celebrate Eid al-Adha or the Festival of Sacrifice by sacrificing livestock. To conduct the sacrificial ceremony perfectly, it must be started with sincerity and fitting sacrificial animals.
A sacrificial animal is said to be fitting if it meets with several requirements stated in the Islam law. Sacrificed animals are large livestock animals. In Indonesia, common sacrificial animals are cattle, water buffalos, goats, and sheep. Another criterion is the animal must be male and has the proper age (over 1 year). A sacrificial animal must overall have good physical presentations without any physical impairment. At livestock yards, often people miss noticing several body parts of the animal they intend to sacrifice, for example torn ears, broken horns, castrated bulls, and in some cases mutilated tails. Some people even sell animals with broken legs at very cheap prices.
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With rabies still in Bali, we are again shocked by the news of rabies outbreak in Nias Island. As of other small islands around Sumatra Island, Nias was previously historically free from rabies. But as rabies emerged in Bengkalis and Rupat islands in March 2009, Nias has now been infected by the disease as well.
The newest global development is heading towards the importance of widely and continuously introducing a new concept, ‘one world, one medicine, one health’. Experts in many countries demand a more integrated and synergized cooperation between veterinarians and doctors to anticipate the emergence of zoonotic diseases with epidemic potentials.