Posted on 10/26/2017 7:01:26 PM PDT by dynachrome
The deadly plague sweeping Madagascar may have a particularly gruesome cause — a local tradition of dancing with dead bodies.
SEE ALSO Madagascar's plague outbreak is spreading at an alarming rate Madagascar's plague outbreak is spreading at an alarming rate Health officials suspect it’s no coincidence that the outbreak — which has infected more than 1,100 people and killed 124 since August — coincides with the time of year when families customarily exhume the remains of dead relatives, wrap them in a sheet, and dance with them through the streets in a sacred ritual, AFP reports.
“If a person dies of pneumonic plague and is then interred in a tomb that is subsequently opened for [the ritual], the bacteria can still be transmitted and contaminate whoever handles the body,” said Willy Randriamarotia, Madagascar’s health ministry chief of staff.
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Dancing with rotted corpses? What could go wrong? Anyone?
Bring out your dead! ping.
“All cultures are equal!”
/ Sarc
Are the corpses wrapped in white sheets because that could be your problem, right there....
An arm would come off while your dancing?
Weekend with Bernie
Well, isn’t that civilized. Freaks.
Who do you suppose leads?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/turning-bones-and-madagascar-dance-dead-001346
“Groups of people heave the corpses above their heads and carry them off, before laying them side-by-side on the ground to be cleaned and dressed. Their dried burial garments are delicately pulled from their corpses and the bodies are dressed in fresh silk garments. Women who are having trouble conceiving will take fragments of an ancestor’s old shroud and place them under their mattresses (or even eat them) to induce pregnancy.’
Years ago The Guinness Book of Records claimed that the deadliest disease was “Laughing Sickness” which afflicted the Fore Tribe in New Guinea. It was 100% fatal.
Turns out that it was basically Mad Cow Disease — they ate the brains of loved ones as part of their funeral rites. This — it turns out — is a bad idea.
I believe they abandoned the practice, and “Laughing Sickness” stopped being a problem.
Primitive bloody savages is all that they are. Defend yourselves accordingly should they attack.
As Ann Coulter would say, the swamp dwellers at the State Department will read about this and think: “What a cool culture to import into the United States.”
Little Known Fact; This is what Break Dancing was originally all about!//
The stench has to be pretty bad.
Using my best Monty Python black knight voice. “It’s just a flesh wound.”
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