Dogs feed on Ebola victims

[grahamhgreen]

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Source: New Dawn

The residents of the Mount Barclay Community within the Johnsonville Township, outside of Monrovia woke up on last Friday morning in total dismay when the remains of dead Ebola victims were reportedly seen, eaten by dogs, something reminiscent of the brutal civil war here, when dogs ate dead bodies on the streets.

The Liberian Government, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, buried some unaccounted-for corpses, suspected to have died from the Ebola Virus in that township few weeks ago.

Read more: http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12468:dogs-feed-on-ebola-victims&catid=25:politics&Itemid=59

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Ugh

[nilram]

1. Beautiful. Now dogs are a vector, too.

[grahamhgreen]

2. scary. dogs get around.

[Journeyman]

3. Don't know if dogs can transmit the disease, but they'll certainly scatter the remains & blood . . .

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. They also lick your face after eating cat turds.

[Journeyman]

6. And after washing it down with a good slurp out of the toilet . . .

[BlindTiresias]

8. There is some evidence they can become asymptomatic carriers.

[SoapBox]

5. Yikes.

And really, really gross.

[XemaSab]

7. "Total dismay" is one way to put it

I bet they were also in "total dismay" when the bodies started piling up in the street.

[Granny M]

9. Horrible.

Cremation would make more sense, I think. Hungry dogs will behave like that around shallow graves. This is so awful.

[get the red out]

10. Are we supposed to think they know?

People's fault, not the poor animal's.

[Trillo]

11. Which is worse?

Dead Ebola victims as a part of your post-rising kitchen-window landscape?

Or dogs feasting on those dead bodies?

Imagine the smell.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. The victims weren't out in the open - the dogs dug them up

from a 'shadowed' (I think they mean 'shallow') grave. There was a dispute about where they could be buried, and it looks like a rush job was done as a result.

[Helen Borg]

13. Brings to mind scenes from the Living Dead.

[MyNameGoesHere]

14. This is how the Zombie apocalypse gets started. eom

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Locking, sorry, since this isn't breaking news, but ongoing since at least last week.

But this story would be fine for GD. Please consider reposting. Thanks for your understanding.