The government said one girl among the dead had apparently been involved in a ceremony retrieving the bodies of deceased family members,
re-wrapping their remains and dancing with the corpses.
SNIP: What century are these superstitious imbeciles living in?
Plague, Polo, measles – we like to think we’ve eradicated them all like smallpox, but they’re still around.
That’s too bad. Madagascar is home to unique flora and fauna not found anywhere else in the world.
Sounds exactly like the types the left wants brought into this country in mass.
They get the plague every year. WTF?
There are areas that look really decent. Former French colony and what not, so the architecture is nice. But man, modern day architecture and stone age inhabitants on the same island.
Dancing with the dead? So the “Monster Mash” is relevant in Madagascar.
Plague is endemic throughout the Americas, including the US. A few people in the US contract bubonic plague each year, mostly in the West. Pneumonic plague is much rarer and much more lethal. It is the same bug, just different vectors.
Poor hygiene and health services, compounded by ignorance, make for a dangerous combination when dealing with pneumonic plague.
What is frightening is that there are probably no travel restrictions for people flying from Madagascar to Europe or the US. Ignorance is one thing, but willful ignorance is unforgivable.
The culture there is a mix of Indonesian, African, Polynesian and French. One of their odd customs is to dissenter their dead, rewrap and entertain them. Nice to honor the relatives but certainly not sanitary.
I remember some of this from an old National Geographic or some such show I watched as a kid.
Satanic evil.
Take my advice: stay away from it!
This reminds me of the old Beat the reaper skit from Firesign Theater. “You’ve got the plague.”
ACParker- Yes, the Hanta virus, etc. gets some play in AZ and NM once in a while, but no one makes it a habit of spreading it dancing with dead people and what nots. lol.
Let me see, what does Madagascar have in common with some places in the U.S. like southside Chicago, Philly, New Orleans etc? I’m seeing a pattern here.
The plague in Europe in the 14C evolved as it spread. Once it went pneumonic (airborne person to person like the common cold, no rat bite or flea bites required) it really took off.
Incubation time from first symptoms to death went from 6 weeks to 24 hours.
“The international Airlines were the perfect transmission network.” –World War Z.
Eventually something deadly and airborne will make its way into the global airlines mainstream. And suddenly it will be the 14th C. all over again.
100% African stone age 90% muslim what more could you want !
For the record, I only dance with dead relatives if they ask me first.
You see? It’s the white man keeping the black man down!….in…Madagascar….
Roman V- It’s the polite thing to do.
Shouldn’t they ban dancing with the dead at least during the epidemic season?
Hey, who’s up for a big hot steaming bowl of Ebola?!
On Okinawa the ceremony is called the Oban Festival that happens once a year. There are no sealed Graves on Okinawa, they take out the bones of their deceased ancestors, clean them off and put them back in until next year.
It is not really a place you’d like to visit or live.
Prairie dogs carry plague.
OK who wants to hold a prairie dog petting zoo outside the next DNC convention? Raise your hand.
It’s the goddamn lice and fleas passing it on. Exactly what Zonga is talking about.
Can’t be dead Zonga, the fleas leave it when it starts to cool
Yersinia pestis (plague), can be spread by contact with infected bodily fluids or tissue. The bacteria can remain active for quite some time after the death of the host. If you breath in aerosalized droplets, you get pneumonic plague and you can infect those around you when you cough or sneeze.
Many pathogens become much more infectious and virulent once they are established in bodily fluids.
Stay clear of dead animals, especially in areas known to be endemic for plague and other diseases like tuleremia, etc. Also, just to get your angst up, things that have become covered in infected bodily fluids, dry or wet, can transfer the pathogen to you by contact or as aerosalized particles. Hantavirus is a good example of that sort of transmission. Q-fever is another one, commonly transferred through parturient sheep, goats and cats, as well as all other bodily fluids — animal and human.
Pleasant dreams everyone.
yep, reboot and ACParker!
Never run over a dead animal with the mower, rabbits are hard to see. The mower will transfer the pathogen to you by contact or as aerosalized particles.
The only thing I know about that island is that the name sums up Henry Ford’s greatest achievement.
So many good things out of Africa!
No wonder the negroes who claim to be “proud” of their “ancestry” don’t emigrate.
izlamo delenda est …