Current Global Ebola Outbreak Traced Back to 2-y.o. Child Fed Infected Bat-Meat in Guinea…

Reaganite Republican ^ | 20 October 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Bushmeat -specifically bats known to carry strains of the deadly Ebola virus- is now believed to be behind the start of today's unsettling Ebola crisis. 

The first victim of the current outbreak in humans was a two-year-old child in Guinea -who’s family hunted bats for food- and it's starting to look like the common African practice of eating bushmeat could very well be responsible for the mess we now find ourselves in.

The family said to have introduced the disease to the human race are from the village of Gueckedou in SE Guinea, where bats known to carry the Ebola virus are still frequently hunted and eaten.

Researchers are calling that first fatality -on 12.06.2013- 'Child Zero', and the family has admitted in interviews that they hunted, ate, and fed the toddler two species of bat which carry the Ebola virus.

Unregulated, virus-ridden bushmeat commonly includes chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats and monkeys, but sometimes even porcupines, rats, snakes, and other sub-Saharan varmints.

To dirt-poor Africans in the hinterlands, eating it can be a necessity at times... but for many wealthier Africans it's consumed as a delicacy, even smuggled-into the UK and
sold discreetly right-smack-dab in the middle of London... no worries, tho- it's all about multicultural tolerance.

[Reaganite Republican]

Exactly-

[Revelation 911]

the only exception I’d personally say, are the Vietnamese and Chinese....all of whom I’ve encountered have a strong work ethic

[Reaganite Republican]

Didn’t some small breakout of Jacob Kreutzfeld -basically mad cow disease- come from people eating squirrels in KY or something?

Not that I never had one, but that’s the way I remember it...

[fruser1]

The more food used for ethanol in gas means more bushmeat required in Africa.

The eco-nazis score another hit in their effort to protect nature by eliminating humanity.

[IronJack]

So a bunch of bone-through-the-nose barbarians chow down on road kill and the world dies of plague. Isn’t cultural equivalence grand?

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[logi_cal869]

I think this answers your question

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/understanding-the-bushmeat-market-why-do-people-risk-infection-from-bat-meat

But it also addresses the key threat when hunting infected animals. Even in this country, few hunters use protective measures when cleaning carcasses. One can only imagine the practices in Africa...I’m also not convinced African meat preparation for Biltong is adequate to eradicate disease.

The irony is that as a delicacy, raw bats could find their way into kitchens in other countries. Right there you have the plot to Contagion.

Ironically, I just came across this story

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/29/smuggled-bushmeat-ebolas-back-door-america-265668.html

[Mike Darancette]

Unnnngg Bat meat.

[dennisw]

BATMEAT and BUSHMEAT stop eating that trash!!! Fer Petes sake!!! How foolish are these people?

[dennisw]

NOTE that disease ridden fruit bats are the Ebola reservoir that never dies. Bats are immune to Ebola and just about everything. They live in caves piled high with their feces. Which are a disease generation machine

[dennisw]

I flipped up the antenna on the trailer this weekend to see how many local channels there are... about 40. Half are spanish speaking, the other quarter or so are chinese or vietnamese with the balance being some form of Engrish or Ghetto or something. A few movie and oldies rerun channels.... The point being, these tribes that come here don’t intend to assimilate into the melting pot of the United States, they just live here. Some pay taxes and almost all are on the gimmedat side of society.

For many of them the US is not a nation. It is an economic zone for them to make money and to travel back and forth from their 3rd world homelands and the US. Many are like commuters and the US is just a rich suburb of Mexico, Guatemala etc to earn some big bucks. 

By making money some is done by working and an equal amount by sucking off the welfare systems be they legal or illegal immigrants And they dodge taxes by owning cash business such as taxi, limo, dry cleaning, restaurants, motels etc etc etc. And illegal/legal aliens workers being paid under the table

Paying taxes is for suckers!!!! Meaning Americans born here. Is what  many/most immigrants believe

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Reaganite Republican]

That’s pretty much how it is

Bring back colonialism!