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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Looks like a demented Cheech & Chong movie with giant joints !
“I am not dead yet!”
“Shut up and dance!”
Wait’ ....people dig up their family corpses and then dance with them....?
That’s a WTF level I didn’t think existed...
That gif never gets old....even if HiLIARy does!
And they wonder why their world is up to the rafters with diseases.
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I remember seeing this on TV sixty years ago. I don’t remember if it was Lowell Thomas or John Gunther’s High Road.
Bring out your dead (Monty Python) 1 min, 45 sec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnS4pkmzis
They did the mash.
They did the monster mash.
They did the mash.
It was a graveyard smash!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2PoSljk8cE
Prairie dogs can carry the plague.
A movie like that deserves a soundtrack:
http://mp3goo.io/download/madagascar-i-like-to-move-it-move-it/
We need to spend billions finding a cure because it would be wrong for us to deny them their rich cultural tradition of playing with rotting corpses.
Sounds like some Repellicans that have dancing with Demonicrats for the last 12 or 13 years! (Like some from AZ and NM for example)
Sure to hear that song played on the radio quite a bit in the coming days.
Yup,among the many strange and wonderful things I learned from working 20+ years at a major hospital was once talking to a Medical Resident about Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease,which is the scientific name for what you're describing.
Now,whenever I give platelets at the Pediatric hospital near me they ask me if I've ever had the disease.
Primitivism.
Geez, have these people never heard of germ theory?
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