An example of a fruit bat.
Good idea to stay away.
Posted on 08/03/2014 5:43:26 AM PDT by Dallas59
As the death toll from the world’s deadliest-ever Ebola outbreak surged past 600 in West Africa, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned West Africans to stay away from certain popular wildlife species that are thought to carry the disease.
“We are not suggesting that people stop hunting altogether, which isn’t realistic,” FAO’s chief veterinary officer Juan Lubroth said in a release on Monday. “But communities need clear advice on the need not to touch dead animals or to sell or eat the meat of any animal that they find already dead. They should also avoid hunting animals that are sick or behaving strangely, as this is another red flag.”
Fruit bats are among the most notorious for spreading disease, according to the FAO. The U.N. organization said West Africa’s current epidemic, which has so far killed at least 604 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, was probably first transferred from an infected animal, and then began spreading between people. Ebola is transferred by direct contact with the blood or body of infected people or animals.
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If people would just follow God’s simple food laws in Leviticus 11, this disease could not have spread from bats and primates to humans. In this area of the world, people hunt and eat bats and primates.
What perfect timing for Obama to not only blast our borders wide open, but to also fly illegals all over the country.
UN warns stay away from eating your neighbor
Use the wing bones to pick the scraps out of your teeth after the meal.
When will the UN tell Hamas to stay away from Israel?
Bats, because of their peculiar way of resting on cave roofs, spend their lives covered with their own urine and feces. They are known to be a major reservoir of various pathogens like rabies. But eating one won’t hurt you since the proper arrangement of monkey bones and chants by the local witch doctor will keep fit as a fiddle.
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