“All cultures are equal!”
/ Sarc
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/turning-bones-and-madagascar-dance-dead-001346
“Groups of people heave the corpses above their heads and carry them off, before laying them side-by-side on the ground to be cleaned and dressed. Their dried burial garments are delicately pulled from their corpses and the bodies are dressed in fresh silk garments. Women who are having trouble conceiving will take fragments of an ancestor’s old shroud and place them under their mattresses (or even eat them) to induce pregnancy.’
As Ann Coulter would say, the swamp dwellers at the State Department will read about this and think: “What a cool culture to import into the United States.”
Prairie dogs can carry the plague.
We need to spend billions finding a cure because it would be wrong for us to deny them their rich cultural tradition of playing with rotting corpses.