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Plague that’s killed scores is blamed on dances with corpses (madagascar)
New York Post ^ | 10-26-17 | Ruth Brown

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3rdworld; bringoutyourdead; bubonic; celebratediversity; madagascar; plague
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To: dynachrome

Necrodancers


61 posted on 10/26/2017 9:07:02 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dynachrome

Dances With Corpses is an unfortunate Native American name.


62 posted on 10/26/2017 9:17:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (They hate Trump because he had the audacity to be elected president without their permission.)
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To: dynachrome
“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.’

So, in other words, these people are stupid.

63 posted on 10/26/2017 9:19:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (They hate Trump because he had the audacity to be elected president without their permission.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

yes!


64 posted on 10/26/2017 9:19:23 PM PDT by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: dynachrome; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; ...

strange and mysterious lands ping...


65 posted on 10/26/2017 9:21:32 PM PDT by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: ETL

scariest thing ever!


66 posted on 10/26/2017 9:24:00 PM PDT by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Dances With Corpses is an unfortunate Native American name.”

Would make a great band name though!


67 posted on 10/26/2017 9:36:29 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: dynachrome
Absolutely grotesque. Thank God I was born in the United States of America.
68 posted on 10/26/2017 9:38:12 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Calvin Locke

They’re and essential species, and plague isn’t native to North America. Hopefully they develop more resistance because it hammers their populations. Apparently the Feds have a vaccine they put out for them beginning recently.


69 posted on 10/26/2017 10:02:29 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: JudyinCanada
Looks like election day in some dem districts.

LOL.

70 posted on 10/26/2017 10:29:15 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: Cicero

#11 photo. Are they trying to set a record for the world’s longest salamis?


71 posted on 10/26/2017 11:33:50 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

The original “Dancing with the Dead” was at Bill and Hillary’s inaugural ball. A practice continued by Obama and Michele.

Pelosi would have been doing the “death dance” except that she was auditioning for “The Walking Dead” and got a walk-on role/roll.

As for Barbra, I don’t think she “danced” since “The Owl and the Pussy Cat”. Remember the hands on her costume? Self-titillation, I think.


72 posted on 10/26/2017 11:37:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: dynachrome

OMG!!! Disgusting culture!!


73 posted on 10/27/2017 2:37:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: odawg
the State Department will read about this and think: “What a cool culture to import into the United States.”

Then teachers will introduce this to their classes and encourage them to dig up corpses. Parents will protest but will be slapped down as racists and xenophobes who are trying to stifle their children. Health experts will lament the increase of the disease, but will say that the cultural diversity is worth the risk.

74 posted on 10/27/2017 3:23:58 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Given the strange fauna of the island an animist culture was to be expected.

So gramps and nocturnal lemurs making strange noises in the night with huge luminous eyes might be one and the same. Dead and undead all same same...dance with 'em what brung yah into being.

75 posted on 10/27/2017 3:26:08 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: null and void

Thanks for the ping.

See my 75


76 posted on 10/27/2017 3:28:09 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

But, but, but, all cultures are equal.....

Maybe that in part explains the spike in vanilla prices.


77 posted on 10/27/2017 5:07:42 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: dfwgator

Definitely needs a sound track.

https://youtu.be/aowSGxim_O8


78 posted on 10/27/2017 5:27:38 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Covenantor

When 18th century scientists saw these mammals for the first time, they thought the creatures looked like ghosts. They named the animals lemurs. This name comes from the Latin word lemures, meaning “ghosts.” In Roman legend lemures were the spirits of people left unburied, who returned by night from the dead to haunt the living.


79 posted on 10/27/2017 5:31:36 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Yikes!


80 posted on 10/27/2017 6:12:56 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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