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2019-05-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Mongolian Couple Dies of Bubonic Plague After Eating Raw Marmot Kidney

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-09 00:42|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 raw marmot kidney ‐ traditionally believed to have health benefits

Well,... their health problems did go away.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-05-09 02:04|| 2019-05-09 02:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Eating raw marmot kidneys is a local attraction?

They really need to get a better marketing guy.

Posted by Beau 2019-05-09 06:48|| 2019-05-09 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Laughs in Darwin

Posted by DarthVader 2019-05-09 08:41|| 2019-05-09 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Read a site years ago that claimed the great bubonic/pneumonic plagues of the middle ages originated and mutated to virulence in Mongolia in the rodent population. Too bad these folks didn't read the same site.

Posted by Angeamble Pheresing9233 2019-05-09 08:47|| 2019-05-09 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Cooking fires came along for a reason.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-09 08:53|| 2019-05-09 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Love your one liners, B.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-05-09 10:19|| 2019-05-09 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Intercontinental travel, a wildlife reservoir of dangerous pathogens and a reversion to medieval standards of public hygiene in parts of Western population centers.

What could go wrong?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2019-05-09 14:18|| 2019-05-09 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 The only reason this became news is because of the stranded tourists and some 'OMFG!' posts by them from the airport.

They eat fruit bats, mice, donkeys there in outer Mongo. Tribalism and Culture kills more people than poverty itself I think.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-05-09 23:33|| 2019-05-09 23:33|| Front Page Top

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