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Four die after eating dead hippo's meat in western Uganda
Xinhuanet ^ | 9/13/04

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fatal; hippomeat; ick; mysterydisease; uganda
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I'm guessing that some farmer poisoned the hippos and then some people ate the poisoned meat. If someone offers you a slice of Ugandan hippo meat, Just say NO. Stay safe.
1 posted on 09/14/2004 7:51:53 PM PDT by gutshot
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Wonder how the exotic deseases jumped into human population...

oh wait..
2 posted on 09/14/2004 7:54:13 PM PDT by Flavius ("... we should reconnoitre assiduosly... " Vegetius)
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Look, why do we need to drag Bill Clinton and Al Gore into this? Just leave Hippo out of the story....


4 posted on 09/14/2004 7:54:50 PM PDT by Drango (What's the Font, Kenneth?)
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To: gutshot

There goes my big Hippo Roast. Damn...anyone need a 55 gallon drum of Hienze 57 sauce ?


5 posted on 09/14/2004 7:55:17 PM PDT by JediForce (Never underestimate the power of the Dark side of the Force....keep the blasters' fully charged.)
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To: gutshot

The only thing worse on you to eat than dead hippo meat is live hippo meat.....


6 posted on 09/14/2004 7:55:27 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: gutshot

I know I wouldn't eat it...


7 posted on 09/14/2004 7:55:28 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: gutshot

Whew!

Luckily, my supermarket has been all out of hippo meat.


8 posted on 09/14/2004 7:56:59 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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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.........


10 posted on 09/14/2004 7:59:50 PM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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No way. That just happened down the street from me a couple weeks ago. I just figured it was a New Jersey problem. I mean, when your happily married governor comes out of the closet as a gay sex herasser, getting poisoned by hippo meat just doesn't seem that strange.
11 posted on 09/14/2004 8:00:03 PM PDT by Rokke
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These morons see hippos dropping dead of some strange disease, and what do they do? They EAT them!

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!

12 posted on 09/14/2004 8:02:56 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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13 posted on 09/14/2004 8:03:30 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Unfortunately, there's no "th" in Schadenfreude...)
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To: gutshot

Never eat road kill.


14 posted on 09/14/2004 8:03:37 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: gutshot

It didn't say whether or not the deceased cooked their meat before eating it.


15 posted on 09/14/2004 8:05:41 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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To: gutshot

In a related story, Hillary reports a sudden weight loss.


16 posted on 09/14/2004 8:07:24 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: gutshot
They would probably have died if they tried to eat a "Live" hippo.
17 posted on 09/14/2004 8:11:52 PM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gultch.)
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We're talking a MAJOR case of Montezuma's Revenge here, folks. On the solid side, that is.


18 posted on 09/14/2004 8:12:27 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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Looks like fried hippo steak is the preferred cooking style.

"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, it’s a party. Hippo meat is delicious,” she said." http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-8-2003_pg9_11


19 posted on 09/14/2004 8:13:24 PM PDT by gutshot
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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.


20 posted on 09/14/2004 8:15:03 PM PDT by garyhope
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