AR-News: (US HI) Legislators tackle zoonosis to brucellosis with resolutions

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Bruce Dunford 
Associated Press
>From a democracy advocate jailed in China and buffalo being slaughtered for 
meat in Yellowstone to making a special day for sea turtles and having Hawai'i 
students make robots, the things Hawai'i lawmakers fret about are as 
wide-ranging as life itself. 
While the real substance of the Legislature's 60-day annual session is 
handled with bills — budgets, pay raises, red light cameras, drug abuse and gas 
prices — legislators use resolutions to collectively voice their concern about 
matters at home and afar. 
For instance, the House has a resolution "to prohibit the possession, 
propagation, sale, transfer or harboring of nonhuman primates in Hawai'i, with 
certain exceptions" because "most owners of nonhuman primates lack the knowledge, 
skill and devotion necessary to prevent zoonosis, or the transmission of disease 
from primates to humans." 


full story:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Apr/12/ln/ln12a.html 
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