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To: ElenaM
You'd think one of the first things done would be to remove animals from the vicinity of the ETU.

Maybe it isn't just "Bushmeat" (Hmmmm... maybe I'll pass on the barbecue and have the fish instead...)

Well, here, in town, the pigs don't run wild, but imagine Ebola getting out into the farthest rural areas where there is a significant feral pig population...Pigs and dogs will both eat human corpses...

Now, the question of whether dogs can pass the virus on to humans or other animals which can needs to be answered.

4,565 posted on 10/28/2014 8:59:16 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Well, here, in town, the pigs don't run wild, but imagine Ebola getting out into the farthest rural areas where there is a significant feral pig population...Pigs and dogs will both eat human corpses...

Which town do you mean? The pigs in that video looked to be wandering unimpeded to me but I may have missed something.

Now, the question of whether dogs can pass the virus on to humans or other animals which can needs to be answered.

That's the research I'm waiting for. Village dogs as intermediary hosts makes sense to me in the abstract. Much more sense than many of the hypothesized wild animal interactions I've heard posited as explanations for previous outbreaks. I hope someone is planning that research now.

4,568 posted on 10/28/2014 9:06:45 AM PDT by ElenaM
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