Who matters? 300,000 petition to save 'Ebola dog'
With more than 3,400 people dead in west Africa and 7,500 infected in the latest Ebola outbreak, 300,000 people sign a petition demanding action... to save an infected dog.
The most popular Ebola-related petition currently on the change.org website is not one calling for an end to the suffering of men, women and ******** in west Africa.
It is a petition calling for Excalibur, the pet dog belonging to Teresa Romero Ramos, the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola, to be saved from euthanasia. Officials want to put it down for fear that it may spread the disease.
Whilst Excalibur's petition has more than 300,000 supporters at the time of writing, the nearest petition relating to human sufferers of the virus, calling for vaccine research to be fast-tracked, has half that number.
