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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts) Tue Aug 26, 2014, 01:13 AM Aug 2014

Dogs feed on Ebola victims [View all]

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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

Ugh

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Dogs feed on Ebola victims [View all] grahamhgreen Aug 2014 OP

Beautiful. Now dogs are a vector, too. nilram Aug 2014 #1

scary. dogs get around. grahamhgreen Aug 2014 #2

Don't know if dogs can transmit the disease, but they'll certainly scatter the remains & blood . . . Journeyman Aug 2014 #3

They also lick your face after eating cat turds. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #4

And after washing it down with a good slurp out of the toilet . . . Journeyman Aug 2014 #6

There is some evidence they can become asymptomatic carriers. BlindTiresias Aug 2014 #8

Yikes. SoapBox Aug 2014 #5

"Total dismay" is one way to put it XemaSab Aug 2014 #7

Horrible. Granny M Aug 2014 #9

Are we supposed to think they know? get the red out Aug 2014 #10

Which is worse? Trillo Aug 2014 #11

The victims weren't out in the open - the dogs dug them up muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #12

Brings to mind scenes from the Living Dead. Helen Borg Aug 2014 #13

This is how the Zombie apocalypse gets started. eom MyNameGoesHere Aug 2014 #14

Locking, sorry, since this isn't breaking news, but ongoing since at least last week. Rhiannon12866 Aug 2014 #15