"You ever been to Mongolia? You've been there haven't you?
You sat on the curb, took off your shoes and ate raw Marmot meat in Mongolia, didn't you?"
Posted on 05/08/2019 2:06:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A Mongolian couple has died of the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot kidney, triggering a quarantine that left tourists stranded in a remote region for days, officials said Monday. The ethnic Kazakh couple died on May 1 in Nogoonnuur soum, in Mongolia's westernmost province of Bayan-Ulgii, which borders Russia and China.
A six-day quarantine was declared for people in the region, preventing nine tourists from Russia, Germany and Switzerland from leaving.
The quarantine was lifted on May 6 after no other cases of the plague were reported. Authorities have warned people against eating raw marmot meat because it can carry Yersinia pestis, the plague germ. At least one person dies of the plague every year in Mongolia, mostly due to consuming such meat, according to the National Center for Zoonotic Disease. Some people ignore the warnings as they believe that consuming the innards of the large rodent is good for their health.
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Couple dies of bubonic plague after eating raw marmot meat in Mongolia...
Boy if I had a dollar for every time I ate raw marmot meat in Mongolia...
On the bright side, they will never do that again. :)
“How the raw marmot kidney?”
Such a cute furry rodent too!
About as good as raw fugu.
:)
Raw fugu kill you very quick, no enjoy. Raw marmot kidney more fun.
Some people are insane.
No Popeye, I was picking my feed in Poughkeepsie, I swear!
"My feet!, man! I was pickin' my feet!"
Sméagol would cook marmots on a stick or in a stew, Gollum eats the filthy marmots raw, when he can sneak up on them.
Serves ‘em right!
Cross that off the Roadblock for when The Amazing Race visits Mongolia....
Oh yeah, tough guy, eh? I double dog dare you to eat my kidney, raw ! See you in Hell, bastards !
How’d you like to drive to work some day, and all the STREET SIGNS are written in MONGOLIAN, huh?!! Can you read Mongolian?! I CAN’T!! Not even LITERATES can read Mongolian!! Only MONGOLIANS can read Mongolian!! Have you ever smoked Mongolian hash?! HUH?! YOU DON’T EVEN GET HIGH!! WHEN YOUR HEART STOPS BEATING, AND YOU THINK YOU’RE GONNA DIE!! [ he pounds on the news desk ] I WANT HARD DRUGS!! I WANT — [ he pounds the news desk and flings himself to the floor, as the audience erupts into applause ]
This deserves a Darwin Award.
Sounds like something a yute would say...
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