Posted on 09/14/2004 7:51:53 PM PDT by gutshot
Four people in western Uganda died recently after they reportedly ate a dead hippo's meat, The New Vision newspaper reported on Monday.
The dead, from Bunyaruguru county, Bushenyi district, ate the meat after the hippo died of a strange disease.
Three more ate hospitalized at Rugazi Health Center, the reportsaid.
Bushenyi district director of health services Charles Katurebe said they were investigating the deaths.
Bunyaruguru county residents have always complained that hippos from Queen Elizabeth National Park eat their crops.
A mysterious disease hitting Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda about a month ago has killed more than 100 hippos out of an estimated 4,000 up to date.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) dispatched an expert team made up of people from the UWA, Makerere University, the Ministry of Agriculture and an European Union supported disease control program in mid-August to investigate the death.
However, the cause of the death remains a mystery.
Look, why do we need to drag Bill Clinton and Al Gore into this? Just leave Hippo out of the story....
There goes my big Hippo Roast. Damn...anyone need a 55 gallon drum of Hienze 57 sauce ?
The only thing worse on you to eat than dead hippo meat is live hippo meat.....
I know I wouldn't eat it...
Whew!
Luckily, my supermarket has been all out of hippo meat.
Uganda has never had the pleasure of a visit from Michael Moore have they? Well, I'll be the first to certify him organic fed.........
This is why 15 billion dollars for AIDS relief to Africa is such a bad idea. We'll be seeing adults suffocating themselves putting condoms over their heads!
Never eat road kill.
It didn't say whether or not the deceased cooked their meat before eating it.
In a related story, Hillary reports a sudden weight loss.
We're talking a MAJOR case of Montezuma's Revenge here, folks. On the solid side, that is.
"Lea Harushimana, a 25-year-old mother, says she celebrates whenever she can get hold of hippo steaks and fries them with cassava, rice or potatoes. We invite neighbours, its a party. Hippo meat is delicious, she said." http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-8-2003_pg9_11
I wonder if it tasted like chicken?
And no,...I don't mean John Kerry.
Oh ha ha ha ha, I am just so funny.
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