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Could Kenyan Camels Cause Next COVID-19 Pandemic?
Africa News ^ | 15/04 | Kizzi Asala

Posted on 05/14/2021 11:17:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway

In the Kapiti Nature Reserve in southern Kenya, this dromedary is furiously undergoing a PCR test to detect a cousin of COVID-19, Mers, which could one day cause the next global pandemic.

Two metres high and weighing 300 kilos, the beast rumbles and struggles, restrained at the neck, muzzle and tail by three camel drivers, while the veterinarian in the blue coat hurriedly proceeds with the dreaded sampling.

"Taking a sample from the animal is difficult because you never know what can happen (...) if you do it wrong, it can be even worse because it can hit you, bite you," explains Nelson Kipchirchir, a vet in Kapiti.

On this foggy morning, one of the camel drivers will not escape a violent kick from the hoof during the nasal and blood samples taken from a dozen of the 35 dromedaries of Kapiti.

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: camels; covid19; kenya; morecovidporn
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To: nickcarraway

>>Could Kenyan Camels Cause Next COVID-19 Pandemic?<<

Ask our Kenyan Camel and be sure.


21 posted on 05/14/2021 12:12:53 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: rdl6989

Your wrong.
It’s still going on and will forever. Some things cannot be reversed.


22 posted on 05/14/2021 12:16:15 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: nickcarraway

That’s it, the only Kenyan we know brought Covid 19 to the USA.


23 posted on 05/14/2021 1:07:48 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: nickcarraway

Why not check out the “Kamels” here in the US, Obama, part Kenyan, Michele, two-hump dromedary, country of Chicago, Omar - Somalian “Red Camel” (her father was a marxist; and Kameltoe Harris, the best political humper in the country?

There has to be a virus basis for their Marxist rantings, political hatreds, financial greed, their psychopathic lies, and their lust for power. Perhaps there is an “authoritarian virus” after all. They are living proof that it is quite possible.


24 posted on 05/14/2021 11:50:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: zeestephen

You need to have that clearly stated in your will/trust/whatever your health care provider requires.


25 posted on 05/15/2021 9:08:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Don’t mask! Don’t tell! by GranTorino!!)
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To: lee martell

The old Listerine Mouth wash probably saved the lives of a lot people during the 1918 epidemic.

It is still available and on the shelves of most drug stores and many grocery stores.


26 posted on 05/15/2021 9:12:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Don’t mask! Don’t tell! by GranTorino!!)
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