Posted on 04/03/2008 12:46:52 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -- Hundreds of camels have died in Saudi Arabia this week from a mystery ailment.
Cars stop on a Riyadh highway to make way for a caravan of camels. The animals are big business in Saudi Arabia.
The Agriculture Ministry has said 232 camels died in the space of four days in the Dawasir Valley, 250 miles south of Riyadh.
King Abdullah has promised compensation for owners, who say the real number of deaths is far higher.
Agriculture ministry officials have denied an infectious disease caused the deaths and blamed them on animal feed supplied by food storage authorities.
"The disease has to be limited to one place to prevent it spreading and then they have to find a serum," said camel breeder Hamad al-Harthy, who talked of hundreds of deaths.
"They need to bring in help from abroad to find a solution," said trader Turki Abdelaziz.
Camels are big business in the desert kingdom and are traded by Bedouin tribes for thousands of dollars each. The animals are used for racing and their meat is also prized.
Authorities have been on the lookout for signs of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu over the last year. The virus was found in birds in two instances, in March and last year.
Saudi Arabia's Agriculture Ministry has lifted bans on poultry imports.
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Global Warming.
AIDS picked up from Bin Laden’s boys.
I feel certain this is a STD that jumped from the human species to camels.
They should have learned not to buy camel feed from China.
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Hemorrhoids?....
MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS
Maria Muldaur
(David Nichtern)
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows paintin’ our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
Heaven’s holdin’ a half-moon
Shinin’ just for us
Let’s slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust
Come on, Cactus is our friend
He’ll point out the way
Come on, till the evenin’ ends
Till the evenin’ ends
You don’t have to answer
There’s no need to speak
I’ll be your belly dancer, prancer
And you can be my sheik
——— guitar solo ———
I know your Daddy’s a sultan
A nomad known to all
With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him
Jump at his beck and call
But you won’t need no harem, honey
When I’m by your side
And you won’t need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride
Come on, Cactus is our friend
He’ll point out the way
Come on, till the evenin’ ends
Till the evenin’ ends
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Got shadows paintin’ our faces
And traces of romance in our heads
I should’ve posted this as my first comment...
Can we have intelligent discussion please?
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Did anyone see a plane flying overhead? Testing new software . . . |
Maybe it was the smell of the AlQ’s that made the camels ill...
Camel toe?
Camelrot!
AAAAAAACCCCCCHHHHHHHHHH!!!!........
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Don't make the moose mad! He got mad last week and whacked all those damn camels . . . |
I figured some sort of STD was responsible
Saudi grabasstics made them jump camels..
Human to camel AIDS transmission?
“Camel toe?”
I found a good pic of that but I just can’t bring myself to post it. lol
““Camel toe?”
I found a good pic of that but I just can’t bring myself to post it. lol”
It doesn’t involve Helen Thomas, does it???!!!!
“““Camel toe?”
I found a good pic of that but I just can’t bring myself to post it. lol”
It doesn’t involve Helen Thomas, does it???!!!!”
Ok thanks, I’m officially grossed out now. ;)
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What is all the fuss about a Dromedary's foot? Big ugly toes . . . |
Rove, you’ve done it again!
I’m surprised they aren’t blaming it on those wicked Zionist’s!
Just before Desert Storm kicked off an Army troop was using his LAW optical site to observe a camel caravan in the distance.
He accidentally touched off the missile and turned one of the animals into camelburgers.
Quite a stink was raised about the incident and they Army had to pay the RH for his camel and the stuff it was carrying.
Must be the company they keep...
Camels hang out with flea bags.
King Abdullah has promised compensation for owners,
Ho much of that is the US Treasury going to cover.
C.I.A. plot.
I know what we can do to get the Saudis Goat, kill all their camels.
My first thought, but isn’t Yassar Arafat dead?
If all the camels go, they could always use apes instead.
Human to camel AIDS transmission?
You know what Arafat told Clinton. “Camels don’talk”
So much for the Arab Calvary!
Old Doonesbury strip had him reminiscing about "'Nam" and duck hunting on the Mekong using LAWs, or maybe SAMs.
(Hey, it is a comic...)
OF course they need to bring in help from abroad, since violence or explosives won't cure this problem they are rendered helpless.
Yellow cake?
“They need to bring in help from abroad to find a solution,” said trader Turki Abdelaziz.
In other words the US should research it for them.
I am sure that All Gore would agree!!!!!!
Some kind of toxic fungi in the feed. Bet it’s something well-known for centuries. St. Vitus? Aflatoxins?
I guess syphilis will pass from a man to a camel then.
Thanks for one of the few intelligent posts...
There’s been some sort of fungus called “wheat rust” floating around the Middle East and Europe. That might have something do with it too.
Bird Flu? Are you sure they didn’t get Camel Clap from their riders?
Make ladders illegal and the camels will quit getting aids.
Well,
I happen to love camels and stories like this just make me very sad. I hope they can figure out what’s wrong before any more fall ill.
Isn’t wheat rust something that’s been around like, forever off and on??
OK, I was gonna make a funny, but since you want SERIOUS replies...
It is suspected that they succumbed to AIDS as a result of HIV acquired from their camel-humping queer owners.
In The first gulf war a camel would not stay away from a tank, it was spitting on it and yelling, the thing was driving the guys crazy. My friend was stationed at a patriot missile battery when the tanker stabbed the thing with his atropine injector, the camel just fell over dead. Army had all sorts of problems with that he told me.
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