The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,” Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center, told The Associated Press.
The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, and 419 cases have been recorded including 53 deaths.
According to the WHO’s Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms.
I apologize in advance for my ignorance. But why do people like to eat bats? Are they particularly nutritious? Or is it a matter of access to foods and resources? Are they really yummy? And why didn’t Ozzy contract any weird deadly disease?
Because they need to eat.
Why do people eat chicken if there’s a risk of getting salmonella?
You cook it…
Yet thousands of people get salmonella every year from under cooked chicken and some die of it. Eating bat is the same, cook it correctly and it’s safe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_as_food
Why not eat something nice and normal instead of a bat though? I mean FFS
Lol wtf makes a bat not normal?
Well, for starters, most are pretty small and there’d not be much meat on them anyway. It would be a lot like eating mice, but with more bones.
Do you eat bats often?
have you tried bat?
Could be manna from heaven, for all you know
No? Why would I? Is there anything that makes them as a food source particularly beneficial?
Eating bat vs. eating air seems like a no-brainer in the survival dept.
Now that makes sense. This nonsense about cultures is a crock of shit on the other hand.
Do you ask yourself the same thing when eating any other meat or you just have something against other cultures?
Yes I do, I always wonder how it came to be, and if it’s unusual I wonder about why it remains to this day.
Do you not even realise how actually painfully racist it is to imply that their culture is eating known extreme risk factors for horrible diseases? It’s like saying having AIDS is queer “culture”. It’s so fucking patronising.
Guy above gave an actual response. My original comment was just wondering if something happened like extremely bad famine or war that would cause people to take such a risk.
You ever eat a hot dog? Crazy stuff in there just as sketchy as bat.
Maybe in the US? I’m sorry but we still have food regs in europe
In reply to this, I give you Andouillette.
I forgive you. 🤗
Unless you don’t eat meat you don’t have much of a leg to stand on right now
Huh? Meat I eat isn’t considered to be a risky source of novel zoonotic coronaviruses
Chicken is safe as long as you cook it properly
Beef is safe as long as you cook it properly
And guess what…
Bat is safe as long as you cook it properly
People get sick and die from under cooking beef and chicken all the time, will you stop eating it because of that?
I would bet these kids were just as likely, if not more so, to have been infected by handling the bat as having eaten cooked bat.
Are you an idiot? If cows had a high risk of novel zoonotic pandemic diseases coming out of them after a worldwide pandemic then of course I wouldn’t eat them you fucking imbecile, and stop implying that these people are too retarded to understand this just because of their skin colour.
This is generally why people eat certain things, yes.
Pretty sure you eat anything possible when you’re starving, and these children may have been.