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snooper2

(30,151 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 12:45 PM Jun 2014

Bushmeat and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia - VICE



West Africa is being plagued by a new outbreak of Ebola — a terrifying disease that causes its victims to bleed to death from the inside out. Ebola has no cure, and the latest epidemic is spreading fast.

VICE News visited Liberia, where many feel the new outbreak began, borne from the bushmeat markets of Lofa. Western scientists feel that the consumption and preparation of meat from monkeys, fruit bats, and other forest animals is behind the transmission of Ebola, and possibly a new supervirus, which if left uncontrolled could kill a third of the world's population.

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Bushmeat and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia - VICE (Original Post) snooper2 Jun 2014 OP
I'm really liking the VICE News. dballance Jun 2014 #1
I'm amazed the people there think this is no big deal, fucking Ebola song is #1 there snooper2 Jun 2014 #2
I'll have to be the cynical SOB I am. It hasn't affected "Their" lives yet. dballance Jun 2014 #3
Bush meat has been implicated in other Ebola outbreaks lapislzi Jun 2014 #4
Also in AIDS. nt Javaman Jun 2014 #5
 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
1. I'm really liking the VICE News.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:02 PM
Jun 2014

Great articles and documentaries on relevant subjects. Not the pablum we get from the typical US MSM.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
2. I'm amazed the people there think this is no big deal, fucking Ebola song is #1 there
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:12 PM
Jun 2014

357 people dead by end of June-

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
3. I'll have to be the cynical SOB I am. It hasn't affected "Their" lives yet.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:33 PM
Jun 2014

We have a long history of not giving a shit about other people in the world here in the US. Take our denial of climate change as an example.

The only time we seem to give a darn about things is when issues present themselves, unmistakably, upon our door steps. Until an issue in the wider world begins to affect us it is not taken seriously by people in the US.

I guess when Miami and Manhattan begin to be submerged by the rising sea levels as a result of climate change we might, just might wake up. But I'm not going bet on it.

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
4. Bush meat has been implicated in other Ebola outbreaks
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:33 PM
Jun 2014

It's thought that the reservoir lives in fruit bats. And, it is sadly, ridiculously easy to purchase bush meat in a town of any size almost anywhere in Africa. It's often a principal source of protein for families.

NOT an easy problem to solve. Don't eat bush meat, don't touch your dead, don't nurse your sick. Prevention goes against every cultural norm of the region.

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