Mysterious illness caused by pet prairie dogs is possibly monkeypox

The Associated Press ^ | 06/07/03 | The Associated Press

[Calpernia]

Monkeypox. I wonder if that is why there was similarities to HIV referenced in earlier threads.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Pet prairie dogs?

[TexasCowboy]

I wonder how many of those little varmints we'd need to start a colony at Dietz's Range in New Braunfels?
That would be a lot more fun than targets!

HEY! PETA PEOPLE!!
Can you imagine what a .50 caliber round would do to the head of a prairie dog?

[visualops]

Complacency is a dangerous thing.
To ever assume a disease has been "eradicated" and thusly behave as if it and related diseases pose no further threat, is foolish. The fact is, all the diseases that most people assume are history, are still present in the Third World, including the Plague.

[Free Trapper]

Bubonic plague still pops up on a regular basis in some of our Western states.

You might want to take care how you sling the words "third world" around.HeHe. ;O)

[P.O.E.]

Anybody know if Gambian rats, etc, have to stay in quarantine before being allowed free range in the U.S.?

Please excuse me for posting my own personal paranoia, but this has bothered me for some time: What is to stop a human with a particularly nasty disease from being purposefully put on a plane to the US, and funded to travel as far and fast as they can (subways, airports, Penn Station, etc.) to spread maximum contagion.

[Paleo Conservative]

Monkeypox. I wonder if that is why there was similarities to HIV referenced in earlier threads.

Zero similarities. HIV is an RNA virus which is why it mutates so quickly. Orthopox viruses like monkeypox store their genetic code as DNA, so they have a much lower rate of mutation.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Statement: " A virus related to smallpox that has never been detected in the Western Hemisphere...."

Response: Yet another application of the doctrine "Our Diversity Is Our Strength!" Diseases that we have never heard about. Asian diseases, African diseases, South American diseases. Soon the parasitical worms and flukes. Wait until one of these "Diverse" diseases explodes. It is rare that one is given the opportunity of seeing a false doctrine exposed as dangerous, by raw brute fact.

[Calpernia]

That is not what I meant. We have a thread catalogued someplace that referenced something with the development. I can't look for it now. I'm on my way out.

[Eaker]

Yer little buddies...

Eaker

[Eaker]

El Roy has developed a plan involving his .50 cal and the prairie dogs in a conga line!!!

Saves ammo................

Eaker

I don't think it will work!!!

[riri]

Ping! hmmmm, whatchya think about this one?

[Shooter 2.5]

I noticed the story of the guns found in the girl's bedroom.

The teenagers ground the serial numbers off stolen guns so I guess they won't be returned to the owner. Too bad. At least the kids are young enough so the owner can go after the parents.

[Orange1998]

I like your Hawaii Dollar. Could it really be worth 80.00.

[TexasCowboy]

The problem I have is deciding how many prairie dogs are worth $4.89!

Never fear, though. By July 12th the ball ammo I ordered will be in.
I'll have two hundred rounds so everyone can shoot as much as they want.

[Shooter 2.5]

I always wanted to get a couple of breeding pairs and drop them off along the river banks in Mesquite. All I would have to do is wait a couple of seasons and then offer my services.

[Shooter 2.5]

You better be careful when you start slinging that phrase, "Shoot as much as you want" with this bunch. LOL

[wardaddy]

"Sod Poodles"??

ROTFL.....we are gonna need a Squantos lexicon thread around here one day....

[Squantos]

I get a twofer every once in a while and even had a threefer once...............just don't tell my girl friday. She'd kick my butt or just shoot me before I could finish explainin.

BTW Understand this, If you even have a near miss with the .50BMG on a sod poodle, they still lose......:o)

Stay Safe !

[TexasCowboy]

G., if it were any gun but the Barrett, I'd have said, "within reason" - meaning a hundred rounds or so.
Anyone who can fire a hundred rounds from that Barrett and still pick up a knife and fork, I'll buy him the biggest steak in Houston.