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West Africa's Ebola outbreak prompts changes in I.Coast cuisine
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| 04/20/14
Posted on 04/20/2014 9:33:45 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
Late in March, Health Minister Raymonde Goudou Coffie called for her compatriots to stop eating porcupines and agoutis, which look like large river-rats, "until we can be sure there are no risks".
Bushmeat is known to be a vector of Ebola, the alarming haemorrhagic fever that has claimed at least 122 lives in Guinea, according to a UN World Health Organisation toll on April 17. Liberia, meanwhile, reports 13 deaths.
Hunters and restaurant owners in the central Ivorian town of Bouake are upset that clients have begun to steer clear of the strong taste of the agouti, a beast with a long snout and brown fur that can reach half a metre (1.6 feet) in length.
Last week, the minister's recommendation was still going unheeded or ignored by some traders and hunters in Bouake's main bushmeat market. One hunter openly carried a dead rodent.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; agouti; ebola; haemorrhagicfever; porcupine
Everyplace that ebola has taken hold, the populace eats bats and rats as their main food source. Son't believe those that tell you ebola is right at your doorstep.
To: BunnySlippers
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posted on
04/20/2014 9:35:45 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
Ebola is NOT on it’s way unless yu are eating infected roadkill.
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posted on
04/20/2014 9:36:59 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
Roadkill is bushmeat here. we eat that stuff too
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posted on
04/20/2014 9:39:15 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: BunnySlippers
AHHH!!!
I'm doomed!
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O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
04/20/2014 9:39:29 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: BunnySlippers
They don’t own automobiles so not very much roadkill there
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posted on
04/20/2014 9:41:20 PM PDT
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dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: ConorMacNessa; dennisw
Are you eatting bats, rare and other stuff like this?
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posted on
04/20/2014 9:44:23 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
I sense a good opportunity for someone to open up a Mickey D’s here! ;)
To: BunnySlippers
LOL!
Actually, I'm not sure about what I've eaten. I lived in the Orient as an adolescent - they said it was venison - not so sure about that.
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O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
04/20/2014 9:51:09 PM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: BunnySlippers
Well, are agoutis rats or another breed of rodent? Just like guinea pigs or bunny :) rabbits? Are the latter ones dangerous too if wild ones are eaten? I dint know, just asking
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posted on
04/20/2014 10:10:51 PM PDT
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Cronos
(ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: BunnySlippers
Saudi Arabia is a big consumer of camel meat. In Saudi Arabia, an outbreak of the MERS-CoV virus (the Middle East Respiratory Syndromeis) is causing alarm. This disease is contagious to other beings and the respiratory infections are so severe, most people die from it. The main carrier of MERS-CoV virus is in camel meat that was infected by bats. Both the Ebola virus and the MERS-CoV virus are spread by contaminated meat.
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posted on
04/21/2014 1:15:02 AM PDT
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jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
To: BunnySlippers
Send Andrew Zimmerman there to test the cuisine. I see fish and chicken on the menu which should be edible. I’ll skip the bats and rodents
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posted on
04/21/2014 5:04:06 AM PDT
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dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: BunnySlippers
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:00:10 AM PDT
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Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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