Try as hard as you might to avoid looking, but you won't succeed. (:^o)
Posted on 04/03/2008 12:46:52 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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.
“I guess syphilis will pass from a man to a camel then.”
Damnit Mohamhead, while I said it was your turn with the camel, I meant, well....everyone else just rides it to town!!!!!!!
My first thought was that they were buying the food from China...
That’s going to make getting a date Saturday nights harder...
Yeah——
just hope they find the root and keep more animals from getting ill.
Ah, “Midnight at The Oasis” ...now that takes me back to the ‘70s. This is one of “those songs” that can get stuck in your head.
`tard Camel Joke
A priest and a newbie nun (novitiate?) were trekking across the Sahara desert after their Land Rover broke down. They had a camel and a skin of water. The water ran out, and the camel fell down stone dead.
They sheltered lying in the shade of the camel, both close to death themselves. The priest said last rites for them and asked her if she had anything she wished to say before they met their Maker.
She hesitated, but after a long while said softly,
“If I may be so bold, Father—I’ve never seen a man’s, well . . . you know . . . “
He sighs, then shows it to her.
She looks at it, “Hmmm, what do you use it for?”
He replied, “It gives life, my child.”
And she said, “Well what are you waiting for—stick it in the camel!”
Try as hard as you might to avoid looking, but you won't succeed. (:^o)
Notice there is no talk from them about doing something about it themselves? Jerks.
Nah - it was bad eats
From the Arab News via San Fran Cronc
There were several outbreaks of sudden deaths among camels - which are exploited for their milk and meat and as beasts of burden in North Africa and Asia - in many countries last year. However, the worst occurred in Saudi Arabia. At least 2,000 dromedaries perished in a region south of Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Unofficial estimates put the death toll as closer to 5,000.
Initial reports blamed infectious disease, but after Saudi vets sent blood samples to international laboratories it was announced that the animals had been killed by contaminants in their fodder. Two particular contaminants were pinpointed: the antibiotic salinomycin, a supplement used in chicken feed that is toxic to camels, and a fungal species with mycotoxins that can cause nerve damage. However, the Saudi government has shared little information about its investigation and evidence pinpointing fodder contaminants is disputed by experts.
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