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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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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: camels; mers; mersvirus; napl; saudiarabia; smokeemifyougotem
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To: Slings and Arrows
If the camel fits, wear it>


41 posted on 06/01/2014 12:41:46 AM PDT by Daffynition (I stand with the Bundy Family!)
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To: Daffynition

42 posted on 06/01/2014 1:16:26 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: nickcarraway

Foreplay.


43 posted on 06/01/2014 1:21:22 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: SgtBob

I confess, I have kissed a few camel toes in my day.


44 posted on 06/01/2014 6:04:38 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Gadsden1st

Hehehehehehehehe! Right in my wheelhouse!


45 posted on 06/01/2014 6:12:08 AM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: nickcarraway

Foreplay?


46 posted on 06/01/2014 6:12:20 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL. Fergy Ferg.


47 posted on 06/01/2014 6:16:14 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

One of her better pix, I’m thinking.


48 posted on 06/01/2014 6:19:42 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


49 posted on 06/01/2014 6:31:25 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Slings and Arrows

True that.


50 posted on 06/01/2014 7:42:51 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Slings and Arrows; FReepers; Patriots; FRiends



Kiss This


51 posted on 06/01/2014 9:15:23 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. - Aristotle)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; nickcarraway; Joe 6-pack; Slings and Arrows; Salamander
I am not a qualified microbiologist.

However I feel that my colleagues are overlooking the obvious here. The camels get MERS from Saudis, not the other way 'round.

AS a PETA Member in Good Standing I must protest the sexual harassment in KSA. The Saudis must, must I say, be prevented from forcing unwanted advances upon camels, especially the young ones. No (la in Saudi lingo) means "NO!"

*Although it is true that I am not a qualified microbiologist, I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express and my degree was signed by Mr. Patel himself.

52 posted on 06/01/2014 9:17:54 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Vote for a gay African Marxist for POTUS? Sure. What could go wrong?)
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To: Gluteus Maximus

“Pretty” and “Camel” is an oxymoron.

(Unless you’ve really, REALLY spent too much time out in the desert sun with nothing else around but camels....)


53 posted on 06/01/2014 10:40:55 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.)
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To: nickcarraway

If this camel kissing has been going on a long time, maybe the camels caught it from the Arabs!


54 posted on 06/01/2014 10:52:23 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Lady Jag

*applause*


55 posted on 06/01/2014 10:57:05 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Organic Panic

You forgot MRSA.


56 posted on 06/01/2014 11:01:11 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I am not sure I want to know the reason


57 posted on 06/01/2014 3:42:58 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: al baby

MERS leads to a lot of BRD?


58 posted on 06/01/2014 4:33:18 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


59 posted on 06/01/2014 5:45:54 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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