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Paul LoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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 Posted - 11/02/2005 : 1:29:32 PM
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The animals, not the CBS mini-movie:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/02/051102191900.pftxgp20.html
(I imagine they'll quickly be summoning an attractive female college professor to help track down the inevitably unsympathetic human culprits behind this...)
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UnknownSubject
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 11/02/2005 : 7:01:07 PM
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That link just comes up with an ad for chess sets - no mention of vampire bats. Unless the bats are hiding behind the chess pieces - oh, those crafty bats...
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Paul LoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2005 : 7:25:42 PM
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Originally posted by UnknownSubject
That link just comes up with an ad for chess sets - no mention of vampire bats. Unless the bats are hiding behind the chess pieces - oh, those crafty bats...
That's weird... it still works in all my different browsers... |
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2005 : 7:40:14 PM
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Rabid vampire bats have killed 23 people and bitten hundreds of others in the past two months in the Brazilian state of Maranhao, local media reported.
The latest victim was Valice Santos, 20, who died from a rabies infection on Friday in the northern town of Turiacu, 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Sao Luiz, capital of Maranhao state, according to the state health ministry, quoted by the Brazilian news agency Estado.
Some 300 attacks by blood-sucking vampire bats have been recorded in the town. The rabies virus assaults the nervous system and can be fatal unless treated by a vaccine.
Deforestation of the bats' rain forest habitat has triggered the current spate of bat attacks, the secretary of state said.
Of the 23 who died of rabid bat bites, 18 were minors, mostly bitten on the face or fingers. Children were apparently more vulnerable to the bites because they sleep more soundly than adults, a specialist was quoted as saying by the Globo agency.
The vampire bats, found in tropical Latin America, feed off of insects as well as the blood of mammals and have caused the death of large numbers of farm animals.
The real question is how many of the victims were high on ex at the time.
Oh, if only they had been armed with brooms.
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Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 11/03/2005 : 1:10:54 PM
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jedimom
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2005 : 2:17:13 PM
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Do the Brazilians not have access to the rabies vaccine series? Or could they just not afford it?
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2005 : 2:19:15 PM
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That, and maby they were too long in getting to the Dr. It was a rural setting, right?
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jedimom
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2005 : 2:47:32 PM
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Yeah, but you'd think in an area where vampire bats and rabies are both commonly found, there would be some kind of clinic with a ready supply of the stuff in just about every village. But maybe I'm being a utopian. The postexposure vaccine is a pretty big deal, involving multiple shots. But then, rabies is 100 percent fatal in humans once symptoms appear (there has been exactly one human who survived rabies, and she was put into a coma for treatment, so not something you could do out in the sticks).
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Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 11/04/2005 : 4:45:02 PM
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Originally posted by Flangepart
That, and maby they were too long in getting to the Dr. It was a rural setting, right?
True, but I believe rabies is quite slow-acting, giving a fair amount of time for the vaccine to be started. In fact (as I frantically try to remember a childhood book about Louis Pasteur), I think I recall that one of the first test patients was a young Russian boy whose family took him by rail across Europe to Paris after he was attacked by a rabid wolf. He survived (assuming that I'm remembering the story correctly, which I'm possibly not).
However, it's likely the victims in this case didn't know for sure that the bats were rabid, and either couldn't afford treatment, or decided to take a chance. |
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2005 : 4:57:25 PM
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Given that one of the biggest causes of death worldwide is dehydration caused by gastrointestinal illness (which is treated with pure water, sugar and salt) it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that there are people who simply don't have access to rabies vaccine.
No idea about Brazil's health care system, though.
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KurtVon
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2005 : 7:58:12 PM
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Originally posted by John Nowak
Given that one of the biggest causes of death worldwide is dehydration caused by gastrointestinal illness (which is treated with pure water, sugar and salt) it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that there are people who simply don't have access to rabies vaccine.
The most common cause of blindness worldwide can be cured with a $1 pill.
It's easy to forget how poor most of the world really is. If you own two shirts you are in the top 10% of the world's wealthiest people.
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 11/05/2005 : 12:17:11 AM
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Originally posted by KurtVon
It's easy to forget how poor most of the world really is. If you own two shirts you are in the top 10% of the world's wealthiest people.
On the button. I mean, cripes, supposedly Canada wasn't able to send its first-in disaster response team to last year's tsunami because the US snapped up all the commercial air transport and the Canadian Government doesn't have its own intercontinental airlift.
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