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The Scary Reason Saudi Farmers Are Kissing Camels
Washington Post ^
| May
| Adam Taylor
Posted on 05/31/2014 5:14:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
MERS is very scary. This week, while avoiding the term global health emergency, the World Health Organization announced that the deadly viral infection was both serious and urgent. So far, there have been 571 confirmed cases of MERS; 171 of those people died from the disease.
There's one place, however, where the mood about MERS isn't scaring everyone. It's also the place where the infection was first reported in 2012 and where almost 500 recorded cases have been found so far: Saudi Arabia.
And the skepticism about the virus has taken a strange turn in Saudi Arabia, where people have begun kissing camels in response to MERS.
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On Twitter, photographs of men kissing and stroking their camels have been accompanied with comments disparaging MERS:
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: camels; mers; mersvirus; napl; saudiarabia; smokeemifyougotem
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To: nickcarraway
Cue 70s adult movie music.
To: nickcarraway
Naah.
They just like to kiss camels. :)
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:16:04 PM PDT
by
Salman
To: nickcarraway
I knew that FR was the place to go for moose-news. But now it’s camel-news, too!
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:17:03 PM PDT
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: nickcarraway
Yikes. Expect the case count to increase.
The MERS virus in camels is almost identical to that isolated from patients. It seems clear that camels are passing it to humans, but where camels got it is still a mystery.
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:21:28 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:24:11 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("Oh-oh! Guess what day it is! Guess. What. Day. It. Is!")
To: exDemMom
They got it from mussies kissing camels.
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:24:22 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
To: nickcarraway; Joe 6-pack; Slings and Arrows; Salamander
They kept on kissing camels as they always did. This is not something new.
Some people kiss cats. Others kiss dogs. Saudi Arabians kiss camels.
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:25:03 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Slings and Arrows; GeronL
Midnight at the oasis PING!
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:25:48 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: nickcarraway
Well, if we can keep them at home, this is a self-correcting problem
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:27:04 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: nickcarraway
Have you seen their women?
I’d probably want to kiss a camel too.
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:29:11 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: nickcarraway
Mooselums always kiss the bride after consummation.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
This thread is useless without pictures.
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:31:55 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Jonty30
OK, you owe me a new keyboard. That coffee won’t come out!
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:34:17 PM PDT
by
22202NOVA
(This Space For Rent. Offers accepted.)
To: Jonty30
OK, you owe me a new keyboard. That coffee won’t come out!
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:34:18 PM PDT
by
22202NOVA
(This Space For Rent. Offers accepted.)
To: Rio
A camel once bit my sister....
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:35:27 PM PDT
by
SgtBob
(Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
To: a fool in paradise
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yuck yuck.
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:43:00 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(It's a cult and they worship blue oysters!)
To: SgtBob
Was it pining for the fjords dunes?
To: a fool in paradise
I...HATE...THAT...SONG!!!!
But you made me laugh. :-)
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:44:13 PM PDT
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
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