Egypt´s once-reviled street dogs get chance at a better life
(World News Egypt)

CAIRO (AP) - Karim Hegazi spends his days in a Cairo clinic taking care of animals long considered a menace in Egypt. Stray dogs roam in almost every Cairo neighborhood - lurking in construction sites, scavenging through trash and howling nightly atop parked cars. The government says there’s around 15 million of them. They bite some 200,000 people a year, according to the World Health Organization, and spread rabies, one of the world´s most lethal diseases. And if that wasn’t reason enough to feel revulsion toward dogs, a famous Islamic saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad warns that angels won´t enter your home if there´s a dog inside. Yet after centuries of stigma, the...