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 its 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, Madagascars health ministry chief of staff.
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I didnt know there was a shortage of prairie dogs.
Looks like election day in some dem districts.
Clearly the answer is to put them on many, many boats and bring them into Europe, Canada and America. There they will magically become civilized and assimilate to a less deadly culture.
“Are the corpses wrapped in white sheets...”
We always use the ones with the floral patterns - never even caught a cold!
Had a friend die of that in the UK. It was horrible.
I still can’t donate blood because I lived in the UK during the outbreak years.
Did you read what the people think? That the government is exaggerating/ fabricating the plague to get more money ahead of the elections. I will always practice the turning of the bones of my ancestors plague or no plague. The plague is a lie, Helene Raveloharisoa told the wire service. Good night! What is wrong with these people!?
Wow, the dead must not smell much worse than the living, otherwise, how could anyone stand it?
Last I knew, they still are thriving, out on.....the prairie.
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I'm so glad to live in a civilized country.
Our culture same as yours, YOU BET !
My dad went to Somerville High with Bobby Boris Pickett.
Pickett was from Slummerville? Cool! Maybe that's why Monster Mash was such a big hit here.Kinda like Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon...from Revere.
These people actually DO play “wake the dead”.
I’m glad I was born in America.
As well as the lead singer on "Walking in LA"?
Is “Dancing Queen” playing when they dance with the corpses?
We’re lucky Obama didn’t know about this. He would have brought them all to America
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
" Madagascar's plague outbreak is spreading at an alarming rate Health officials suspect its 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."
As another FReeper asks :" Dead count up to 124 now.
Dancing with rotted corpses? What could go wrong? Anyone?"
Culture and religious practices clash with medical reality
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