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Mystery infections traced to blood-shedding religious ritual |
2019-03-14 |
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ Add self-flagellation to the list of ways to get a dangerous viral blood infection. Researchers said Wednesday that they were initially puzzled how 10 British men had become infected with a little-known virus, because the men hadn’t taken risks usually associated with the infection. But then investigators learned they had participated in blood-shedding religious rituals ‐ cutting or whipping themselves ‐ in Iraq, Pakistan, India and the United Kingdom. "There have been suggestions that you might spread infections through this route, but it has never been described before" in a published medical study, said Dr. Divya Dhasmana of St. Mary’s Hospital in London. She is one of the authors of the study released Wednesday in a journal published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The men were infected with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. Most people infected with the virus never develop symptoms, but some develop terrible illnesses, like a deadly blood cancer or a debilitating nervous system condition. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#6 This is what happens when cousins marry cousins for centuries.....that and the goats. |
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 2019-03-14 16:13 |
#5 Stupid games, stupid prizes! Yada ^3. |
Posted by: Ulick Ulith9076 2019-03-14 12:42 |
#4 Don't share needles...? Sanitize surgical instruments? Whack each other with barbed whips drawing blood...One of these doesn't match the others as a sanitary practice. "Consenting adults and all that" so what they feel like doing is their business. Female Genital Mutilation to minors, on the other hand... |
Posted by: magpie 2019-03-14 12:12 |
#3 Primatives. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-03-14 10:46 |
#2 A veddy prim British physician: "To civilise Moslems, my mission! So cease your Ashura!" "Eschew your datura! You Hindoos can go to perdition!" |
Posted by: Bill Ulesing7470 2019-03-14 10:09 |
#1 Don't do stupid things. We don't want to call Charles Darwin to the phone. |
Posted by: AlanC 2019-03-14 09:57 |