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Saudi Arabia: Farmers flout Mers warning by kissing camels
BBC ^ | 13 May 2014 Last updated at 10:28 ET | Staff

Posted on 05/13/2014 2:34:30 PM PDT by Red Badger

People are taking photos and videos of themselves kissing camels in defiance of a warning from Saudi health authorities not to go near the animals, which have been linked to the deadly Mers virus.

In recent days, Saudi Arabia has urged people to wear masks and gloves when dealing with camels, to stay away from raw camel meat and camel milk, and not to go near sick animals, the newspaper Gulf News reports. But some people have refused to listen to the government's advice, posting videos and sending messages in support of camels.

In one video, a man stands between a pair of camels and asks it to sneeze. "Look at me! Sneeze, sneeze! They say there's Corona in this," the man says, while hugging and kissing his two camels. Then he shakes one of the camels' heads and says, "She says no. Is there Corona in you? She says no."

Meanwhile, a Twitter user with the handle @fheed6666 - who has more than 90,000 followers - tweets to acting Saudi Health Minister Adel M Fakeih: "@adelmfakeih #the_campaign_against_camels_exposed And we call for it to stop or for evidence to be produced because camels are fine and all the ill people are in cities." An info-graphic circulating on Twitter suggests camels are more valuable than petrol.

Saudi Arabia is the country by far most affected by Mers, with 133 deaths since the virus was detected in 2012. Nearly 500 people in the kingdom have been infected.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: camels; camelvirus; health; mers; mersvirus; saudiarabia; thirdworld
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2 posted on 05/13/2014 2:35:45 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Getty Image, sorry about that.


3 posted on 05/13/2014 2:35:55 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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Too bad, it was a beautiful camel. :)


4 posted on 05/13/2014 2:36:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Do any of these “farmers” play football?


5 posted on 05/13/2014 2:37:21 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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6 posted on 05/13/2014 2:37:52 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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Kissing a camel - that is nothing!

Ask the small livestock about Muslims.

;-(


7 posted on 05/13/2014 2:38:23 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: dontreadthis

LOL!


8 posted on 05/13/2014 2:38:27 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GladesGuru

It’s a strange cult.


9 posted on 05/13/2014 2:38:59 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Can we ban travelers from Saudi Arabia?

When I used to say Political Correctness will kill us all, I wasn’t kidding.


10 posted on 05/13/2014 2:39:15 PM PDT by Yaelle
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I understand that MANY Saudi farmers prefer camels to goats.

Of course, neither compares to a well tended sheep.


11 posted on 05/13/2014 2:39:42 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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It’s a backward culture.


12 posted on 05/13/2014 2:40:21 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

TTIWWP


13 posted on 05/13/2014 2:40:36 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: GladesGuru

a muslim counting his goats:

1...2....3....hi honey....5....6...7......


14 posted on 05/13/2014 2:40:51 PM PDT by kingattax (America needs more real Americans.)
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Saudi Arabia: Farmers flout Mers warning by kissing camels

Those arabs were just as demonstratively arrogant about the AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, and herpes epidemics.

15 posted on 05/13/2014 2:49:07 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: GladesGuru

I saw Osama kissing the Mulah’s goat
Underneath the bomb-bing raid last night.
(Rush parody)


16 posted on 05/13/2014 2:50:42 PM PDT by GunsareOK
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To: trisham

Have no fear. This administration will let millions of them in to spread the disease, while we pay for it.


17 posted on 05/13/2014 2:51:16 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: trisham

If you’d seen the women there you understand this.

There is a reason they make them wear veils!


18 posted on 05/13/2014 2:51:34 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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[ Of course, neither compares to a well tended sheep. ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOo0QN-yHyw

Which led to the invention of the Bagpipe..


19 posted on 05/13/2014 2:53:17 PM PDT by GraceG
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I’ve never been there, and don’t think that I care to visit. :)


20 posted on 05/13/2014 2:53:52 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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