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| Vampire bats kill 13 people in Brazil | |
| 2004-04-03 | |
Rabies-carrying vampire bats killed at least 13 people in a remote Amazon town in Brazil's northern state of Para last month, authorities said on Friday. The state health care department said the thumb-sized creatures had attacked about 300 people -- an unusually high number -- since March 2 in the riverside Portel area, next to the world's biggest estuarine archipelago of Marajo. "All the deceased had a history of recent bat attacks and six of them had confirmed human rabies from bat bites," a department spokeswoman said. Other bite victims received vaccines and other anti-rabies treatment after March 19, when authorities became aware of the problem. The spokeswoman said government scientists suspect the attacks are linked to a change in the bats' migration pattern caused by deforestation. Vampire bats normally feed on the blood of large birds and sleeping cattle, lapping it from cuts they make with their teeth. They often transmit rabies to cattle.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 Here's an innovative solution to flying pests. |
| Posted by: Super Hose TROLL 2004-04-03 11:40:18 AM |
| #8 [Troll droppings deleted] |
| Posted by: Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-04-03 11:40:18 AM |
| #7 Not to worry. As long as they get the stake thing done by nightfall of the next day, those people will not Walk the Earth by Night. |
| Posted by: Carl in NH 2004-04-03 8:30:43 PM |
| #6 Addendum to #1 No really, gang. An Al Reuters story and they fail to blame Dubya himself or at least the US in general? They must have the second-string on the Brazil desk. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-03 8:20:31 PM |
| #5 HE, I've gotten caught in the old backdraft once or twice. The smell of burnt hair could be marketed as a perfume alled Impatient or Ill-advised. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-03 4:41:23 PM |
| #4 Super Hose had a grill back upon me like that once when I used dri cleaning fluid to start. |
| Posted by: HalfEmpty 2004-04-03 12:22:09 PM |
| #3 [Troll droppings deleted] |
| Posted by: Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-04-03 11:40:18 AM |
| #2 This looks like a job for . . . well, you know who . . . |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-04-03 7:50:41 AM |
| #1 It's Bush's fault. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-03 3:38:04 AM |
