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To: PapaBear3625
The CIA Factbook has three countries in Africa with HIV rates above 20%, and another 6 with rates above 10%. Not 40%, but still pretty damn high.

You specifically specified WEST Africa as being the place where you were working that had 40% infection rates. In reality, of course, rates aren't nearly that high even in the parts of southern Africa with the highest infection rates. However HIV infection rates in West Africa are actually much lower than that - Liberia's rate of HIV infection, for example, isn't that much higher than America's despite having only a very primitive healthcare system. So, in short, you're full of crap.

As for the rest of the post, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with a few lurid but non-representative headlines from a continent of 1.1 billion people. Last time I checked, Jeffrey Dahmer never set foot in Africa. I'm actually not denying that cannibalism has and occasionally does take place in a few places in Africa - for example there's some evidence of cannibalism targeting pygmy groups during the Second Congo War. But to suggest that this is a common practice continent-wide is bizarre and just demonstrates your ignorance.

36 posted on 09/24/2014 8:38:03 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

I didn’t specify anything and have never been in Africa. I just jumped into the argument you were having with DJ Taylor.


37 posted on 09/25/2014 4:30:15 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Alter Kaker

Haven’t you ever heard of bush meat? Smoked bushpig, bat, gorilla, human - basically anything can be served as bush meat. check it out.


38 posted on 09/25/2014 6:32:46 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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