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Post by chiver78 on May 8, 2019 10:01:05 GMT -5
A couple ate raw marmot believed to have health benefits. Then, they died of the plague. For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia’s westernmost province were largely deserted. “After the quarantine [was announced], not many people – even locals – were in the streets for fear of catching the disease,” Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agence France-Presse. The illness that sparked widespread alarm among the town’s roughly 1,400 residents and visitors, and left them isolated for six days? The plague. The town of Tsagaannuur, located near the border between Mongolia and Russia, was recently sealed off following the deaths of a local couple who contracted the plague from eating the raw meat and organs of an infected marmot, Ariuntuya Ochirpurev with the World Health Organization in Ulaanbaatar, told The Washington Post. Some Mongolians believe eating the rodent’s uncooked innards to be “very good for health,” Ochirpurev said. The husband and wife reportedly ate the kidney, gall bladder and stomach of the creature, a type of large squirrel found in the region. In this case, however, Ochirpurev said consuming the marmot raw resulted in what was likely an agonizing death. *************************************************************************************************** full story at the link up top.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 8, 2019 10:04:08 GMT -5
"Some Mongolians believe eating the rodent’s uncooked innards to be “very good for health,”"
Another myth busted.
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Post by djAdvocate on May 8, 2019 10:41:44 GMT -5
I doubt it is entirely busted, unfortunately.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 8, 2019 10:58:10 GMT -5
It's probably bad that I assumed this happened in the US...
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 11:08:41 GMT -5
I believe Cousin Eddie quit eating squirrels because he found out they were high in cholesterol.
Seriously thought this one is pretty gross.
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Post by happyhoix on May 8, 2019 11:12:13 GMT -5
It's probably bad that I assumed this happened in the US... I figured it was a story about some hill people eating road kill in the US.
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Post by alabamagal on May 8, 2019 12:06:07 GMT -5
Pretty sure marmots don’t live in Fl.
No if was gators....
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Post by weltschmerz on May 8, 2019 12:20:46 GMT -5
I thought marmots are groundhogs. In French, it's marmottes, and they're everywhere.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 14:47:34 GMT -5
It's probably bad that I assumed this happened in the US... I figured it was a story about some hill people eating road kill in the US.
Hey ! That's unfair. We cook our roadkill, and use barbeque sauce.
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Post by chiver78 on May 8, 2019 18:29:09 GMT -5
Pretty sure marmots don’t live in Fl. No if was gators.... the original headline I clicked on didn't specify the animal type, just death by plague.
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Post by kadee79 on May 8, 2019 23:56:43 GMT -5
Squirrel is good, used to eat it nearly every year as well as wild rabbit when I lived up in Ill. However, down here in the south where it doesn't get real cold for very long...they are full of parasites....not really edible. Gator isn't bad, but not something I'd want a steady diet of. Forget raccoon & possum...both too greasy...ICK!
Down here "road kill" is a head of cabbage that fell off a trailer headed to the packing house. Those are good!
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