New Virus May Have Come from Monkeys, Experts Say

reuters ^ | Fri Feb 25, 7:49 PM ET | By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

[DixieOklahoma]

It makes you wonder what they are doing to the monkeys in africa in order to make these new virus'. Not to sound bad, but WTF man.

[redfish53]

stop what your doing, get down upon you knees...

[beaversmom]

Let's send a few billion--that'll help.

[Strategerist]

It makes you wonder what they are doing to the monkeys in africa in order to make these new virus'.

"They"?

Viruses occur and mutate and evolve naturally. It's the practice of eating monkeys that transfer these viruses into the human population.

[DixieOklahoma]

?

[PFC]

People in Africa eat monkeys. If it is not properly cooked, a virus from the monkey enters the human body when the meat is eaten.

[little jeremiah]

Lesson: Leave monkeys alone.

[DixieOklahoma]

If Africans are willing to eat monkeys raw and drink their blood then even adding another source of food is not going to stop them. The only recourse is to end all immigration from Africa (and before you start, that means white and black immigration) As well as end any imports from the entire continent.. The same is true with asian countrys that allow that same barbaric practice. I have no desire to see the actions of third world nations end American lives..

[longtermmemmory]

(s)when will they just accept its about loooooove. (/s)

What they eat the monkeys? oh nevermind.

[xm177e2]

Why would God design monkeys and humans to be capable of hosting the same viruses?

[verity]

"Lesson: Leave monkeys alone."

Or have them wear condoms.

[Strategerist]

Your suggestion would be worthless.

Actually, you'd need to cut off the US from all contact with foreign countries...shut down all international air travel, prohibit all Americans from traveling abroad, permanently. Fat Chance.

Shutting down immigration is meaningless if someone from, say, Italy travels to Uganda, goes back to Italy, and shares a train ride with an American tourist to Italy, and then returns to the US.

You don't need to have someone immigrate or have an item imported from Africa or the Far East to transmit a disease.


It's an irrevocably international world.

[little jeremiah]

In several books about AIDS that I've read, people have indeed gotten AIDS from biting and kissing, and even using one another's toothbrushes. Although, obviously, those aren't the main ways of getting it.

There are examples of such transmission in families wherein one member contracted it from a needlestick or transfusion. One elderly husband (he got it from a blood transfusion) gave it to his wife by kissing.

It is in saliva, tears, vomit and urine (and, AFAIK, all other bodily fluids), as well as blood and breastmilk. Get enough of the bodily fluid - say in a cut, lacerated gums, and maybe a weakened immune system, or a more virulent strain of AIDS - and voila.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

World Health Organization: Bird Flu Pandemic Coming and Millions May Die ! Oh wait!!! Wrong story. Whatever.

[Redcloak]

Would you like to touch my monkey?

[lilylangtree]

Not only eating monkeys but can easily imagine a horny bushman have sex with monkeys too.

[Lessismore]

Why would God design monkeys and humans to be capable of hosting the same viruses?

The design wasn't very intelligent, was it?

[CDHart]

Wasn't there something a few years back about HIV being traced to the green monkeys in Africa?

Carolyn

[festus]

Or a least use a condom .........

;-)