Posted on 07/14/2009 9:08:39 AM PDT by FromLori
Reston ebolavirus (Rebov) has only been seen in monkeys and humans previously and, unlike other types of Ebola, it is not known to cause illness in people.
Researchers say it is theoretically possible for the virus to mutate in pigs into a form that might sicken people.
The Philippines had tested 141 people, the researchers said, and six of them who either worked on pig farms or with swine products were found with antibodies to the Ebola-Reston virus, which means they might have been infected by pigs at some time.
However, they showed no signs of illness. Rebov belongs to the family of filoviruses which target primates. These viruses cause viral haemorrhagic fevers, which result in bleeding and coagulation, and can lead to death.
In their study, the scientists examined blood and tissue samples taken from pigs suffering unusually severe respiratory infections in different parts of the Philippines and found they contained widely varying strains of the virus. This suggests that the virus may have circulated widely in pigs even before it was first discovered in monkeys exported to the United States from the Philippines in 1989, the scientists said.
The discovery of Rebov in pigs in the Philippines is reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
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The only thing better than bacon is bacon wrapped in bacon.
Bacon bits on bacon and you can travel back in time...to when you were eating bacon.
Pork jerky, wrapped in bacon, larded and buttered then sprinkled with bacon bits?
Pinging you.
With my Tin Hat firmly on, it is curious that now a potentially second deadly disease appears in pigs (swine flu being the first). Pigs; a food source only handled and consumed by infidels.
Regards.
Very perceptive leave the tin foil hat on you seem to be thinking clearly with it.
Well, even the Christian version of the Bible states not to eat pork to “enjoy a long and healthy life.”
Perhaps G-d knew pigs are digusting, disease-ridden animals, with an immune system periously close to humans and provided certain advice for the common good.
(Yes, I am Jewish and no, I don’t seek to impose Kosher requirements on others. But sometimes one might find common sense in these requirements. For example, nerve endings and brains are not Kosher -— and that’s where mad cow disease resides.)
I’ve always assumed the opposition to eating pork arose from sanitation issues in pre Christian times. Yes I agree that eating nerves and brains isn’t kosher even for us gentiles. LOL
Seems to me that the sanatation issues (say, like the H1N1 virus) still exist.
I’m going camping in 3 weeks. Short of the tent to cover the wife and kids; nothing is more important than making breakfast that includes something resembling that. Side note: Bacon grease to be saved to fry eggs.
Ok something seems odd about this. If it is already seen in humans, couldn't it just mutate in humans to a form that might sicken us without having to go through pigs?
Interesting. Back before there were vaccines, there was a similar situation with smallpox. There was a related disease, known as cowpox, which could only be caught from bovines, and caused a very minor illness. Cowpox caused the body to develope immunity to smallpox. This was considered to be a good thing, and may have been one of the important factors that led to the development of vaccines.
I will neither agree nor disagree with the religious implications of the consumption or handling or swine. Yet, it can be established that Islamofacists do not come near swine and many of their vowed mortal enemies do (the Jewish world excluded of course). My Tin Hat is still firmly on.
Shalom and Regards.
The immune system of swine is very similar to the human immune system. (For whatever reasons, G-d or evolution).
As a result, diseases jump back and forth between humans and pigs with some regularity.
That said, the immune system of pigs is also DIFFERENT, so the get diseases we don’t have, and vice versa.
It’s the overlap area where both species get in trouble -— a pig with H1N1 gets coughed on by a human with H2N2, the two combine in the pig and out comes H1N2.
They’re not smart enough.
I don’t think we need to look any farther than:
(1) pigs are nasty;
(2) the “modern” method of farming pigs is very close-quarters;
(3) the Chinese take it a step farther and feed chicken pig crap and vice-versa and raise chickens with pigs -— literally with the wire chicken coops on top of pigs -— all in tight quarters with humans.
You stuff enough critters together long enough, nasty bugs crawl out of all sorts.
We have plenty of land in this world. If you have to eat swine, go raise pigs out in the open plains.
Reston ebolavirus (Rebov) has only been seen in monkeys and humans previously and, unlike other types of Ebola, it is not known to cause illness in people. Researchers say it is theoretically possible for the virus to mutate in pigs into a form that might sicken people.I oink gonna worry about.
Your three points are correct and I agree. I disagree that they are not that smart. I’ve dealt with Islamofascist vermin; some are very smart and highly educated in the hard sciences. Unfortunately for us, they are also religious radicals highly motivated to apply their intellect and creativity to cause us harm.
Shalom and Regards.
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