To: B4Ranch
If he had washed his hands afterwards, I'm sure that would have done a lot to keep him healthy. Probably but who knows where the rat had crawled and left bits of this very durable virus to be picked up unwittingly a day or two or a week later.
12 posted on
01/17/2004 8:20:42 AM PST by
riri
To: riri
I do know that the Hong Kong Chinese eat the larger dock rats regularly and sanitation isn't a prime concern in those communities.
15 posted on
01/17/2004 8:53:47 AM PST by
B4Ranch
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