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10 July 2008
TB detecting rats
If mine detection was not enough APOPO also trains giant rats to detect TB...
I like rats but its their tails that squick me out something horribly. For that reason I would probably elect to be a mouse or gerbil owner before a rat.
My mom had rats in her garage. My stepdad had just died and she didn't have anyone manly to take care of such a yick thing. She put out poison and then had to remove the carcasses. She said she worked up the courage to get one rat into a several layers thick nesting pile of plastic grocery bags. She gingerly lifted the thing into the bag only to discover that its gross tail stiff with rigor mortis stuck straight out. It made her start screaming.
Commenting about the societal ills that illegal immigration brings is not PC around here but you know what, thanks to Mexican(and Central American) illegals entering the country, the U.S. is seeing a fierce resurgence of TB.
I got my info from a talk radio show referencing stats from the CDA in case you were wondering. Calling things like it is is NOT hate speech unlike what La Raza and Lulac would have the U.S. citizen sheep believe.
I wish ours didn't either Nubyaa, Bebe has let more than one loose in the house, damn her!
Even though I love pet rats, I don't enjoy finding rat corpses... especially in the house (thanks to Robyn bringing them in. TB has increased here too. What worries me is the incidence of teh resistant strains. one, XDR, is to all intents and purposes untreatable. THat worries me.
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8 comments:
Amazing stuff! Gee I hate rats though but I did save a lil field mouse not even an inch long, from the jaws of Felix.
We love rats. if only the cats were not hunters...
I like rats but its their tails that squick me out something horribly. For that reason I would probably elect to be a mouse or gerbil owner before a rat.
My mom had rats in her garage. My stepdad had just died and she didn't have anyone manly to take care of such a yick thing. She put out poison and then had to remove the carcasses. She said she worked up the courage to get one rat into a several layers thick nesting pile of plastic grocery bags. She gingerly lifted the thing into the bag only to discover that its gross tail stiff with rigor mortis stuck straight out. It made her start screaming.
Commenting about the societal ills that illegal immigration brings is not PC around here but you know what, thanks to Mexican(and Central American) illegals entering the country, the U.S. is seeing a fierce resurgence of TB.
I got my info from a talk radio show referencing stats from the CDA in case you were wondering. Calling things like it is is NOT hate speech unlike what La Raza and Lulac would have the U.S. citizen sheep believe.
Pet white ones are ok, I still don't like my cats to catch any rat/mouse.
I wish ours didn't either Nubyaa, Bebe has let more than one loose in the house, damn her!
Even though I love pet rats, I don't enjoy finding rat corpses... especially in the house (thanks to Robyn bringing them in. TB has increased here too. What worries me is the incidence of teh resistant strains. one, XDR, is to all intents and purposes untreatable. THat worries me.
help apopo get 10 000 dollars by clicking for free in july on this page:
http://www.youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=2335
you can click several times per day(around 700 times!)...
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