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Africa North
Foot-and-mouth disease spreads in Egypt
2012-03-17
Cattle disease was one of the ten plagues, back when it was the Egyptian Pharaoh tormenting the Hebrews.

The government should have been down to about a month or so of cash reserves to buy food for their people... Now 2,000 cattle are dead, 24,500 more livestock are known infected in the past two weeks, and cattle markets have been shut across the country. I'm sure the Israelis didn't do it...
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#13  You say that like it's a bad thing, newc.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-03-17 17:40  

#12  Egypt has no chance in the direction they are going.
Posted by: newc   2012-03-17 17:26  

#11  #3 According to wikipedia, boils comes next.
Posted by Phil_B


Given the sensitivity of Arabs, I would say that they are boils incarnated as people...
Posted by: Ptah   2012-03-17 15:29  

#10  Mexico lost 200,000 head of cattle last year and expects to slaughter another 240,000 this year because of the drought.

FTW.
Posted by: badanov   2012-03-17 12:28  

#9  When was the last time Biden was there?

That would be foot IN mouth.
Posted by: Vespasian Gonque1102   2012-03-17 12:21  

#8  When was the last time Biden was there?
Posted by: AlanC   2012-03-17 10:19  

#7  The question is how much this will be blamed on the Coptics, at least in my view. Blame-game will happen and we all know who will suffer.
Posted by: Charles   2012-03-17 10:09  

#6  Once the evil colonialist, uilander farmers were removed, Rinderpest was easily defeated in Zimbabwe. Of course a nice Beef Wellington can no longer be had, but eating grasses is much healthier.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-17 09:28  

#5  With the breakdown of its medical system, Egypt will soon become a swamp of infectious diseases. It will have to get extremely bad, though, before the WTO intervenes, asking countries to kick down some money.

It will be interesting to see the order in which the diseases come, and how it will affect the 10% of their population with hepatitis.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-03-17 08:59  

#4  Were there any signs of black helicopters and rich people wanting to move into a new resort area to spread the innsmouth look? The New New Mexico (Taos) .
Posted by: Cheamp Darling of the Sith3385   2012-03-17 07:29  

#3  According to wikipedia, boils comes next.
Posted by: Phil_B   2012-03-17 05:51  

#2  Which one comes next, the rain of blood or rain of locusts? I never remember these things.
Posted by: gromky   2012-03-17 03:58  

#1  ...accused the government of incompetence, and have thrown dead cows in front of the governors' offices during protests.
I can't help but think that's an effective protest move. We do it here but call it barbecue.
Posted by: Skidmark   2012-03-17 02:23  

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