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2014-05-20 Arabia

Coronavirus: Saudis defy ban and kiss their camels

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Posted by Squinty 2014-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 An associate of mine claims that, after his service in the US Navy, he worked as a civilian at an elderly veterans' hospice in Chicago where many patients were afflicted/ among other, wid a dormant form or variant of MERS.

Didn't kill or seriously affect them, but they had it nonetheless.

He believes something has changed which has caused MERS to dangerously mutate + transmit from person-to-person.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-20 00:46|| 2014-05-20 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting, JosephM. That would make sense, since apparently there also is a mild form out there... or at least that some people are not experiencing a dangerous infection in need of hospitalization.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-20 07:23|| 2014-05-20 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 It's when they slip them the tongue that people get sick.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-05-20 09:29|| 2014-05-20 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Found this when I searched for how viruses mutate.

Antigenic shift results when two different flu [and other viruses] strains combine and infect the same cell. This mutation is what allows flu [and other] viruses to move from animals to humans.

Posted by Squinty 2014-05-20 14:49|| 2014-05-20 14:49|| Front Page Top

#5 So thinking about it, maybe a Saudi with the flu kissed a camel with mild MERS.

Posted by Squinty 2014-05-20 15:22|| 2014-05-20 15:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Kissing their freakin' camels?

I love my cat to death, but there's no way I'd kiss him on the mouth. (A quick peck on the head, sure, but . . . .)

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-20 15:42|| 2014-05-20 15:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Might smile silently.... but Ima not touching that one Barb.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-20 16:03|| 2014-05-20 16:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Love will find a way...

Posted by ed in texas 2014-05-20 16:44|| 2014-05-20 16:44|| Front Page Top

#9 no comment from our camel-loving idiot troll?

Posted by Frank G 2014-05-20 18:22|| 2014-05-20 18:22|| Front Page Top

#10 He has been gone for a few days, must have had some oysters stored away and tuckered out from the weekend...

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-20 18:54|| 2014-05-20 18:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe he ~~gave a disease~~ caught some disease from his ~~lover~~ camel.

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-20 18:58|| 2014-05-20 18:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Could be his boyfriend is promiscuous, and he's a bit worried.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-20 19:13|| 2014-05-20 19:13|| Front Page Top

#13 No, badanov wrote a little script, and he hasn't been allowed in since.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-20 19:17|| 2014-05-20 19:17|| Front Page Top

#14 Bad's got a little script Bad's got a little script
Of RBee pretenders who might as well be Saudi bound,
And who never would be missed who never would be missed!
There's the pestilential trolls who write faux Hemingway
All who have made olde Pappy mad today,
And who never would be missed who never would be missed!
Bad's got a little script Bad's got a little script

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-20 19:32|| 2014-05-20 19:32|| Front Page Top

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