There's a new hemorrhagic fever in town- meet the Lujo virus
 

http://news.aol.com/health/article/l...-africa/503100


:chatter I'm generally worse with chemicals than germs, but this stuff scares the shit out of me.

Hahahaha, I was just watching Outbreak yesterday too. I lived 30 minutes from the town they filmed Outbreak in. I did not sign up to be an extra like everyone else though.

Now I return you to your regularly scheduled paranoia.

Geez! And didn't AIDS also come from Africa? It's like a variation of the out-of-Africa theory.

must've been eating rats again :O :rolleyes

NOT ONLY AIDS BUT CANCER AND BLACK PEOPLE.

The black people fit into the out-of-Africa theory. I think. :\

not to mention ebola

did you know that aids comes from eating monkeys? :(

poor monkeys..

Isn't it just from their brains? I thought that it's ok if you only eat the rest of the monkey.

Hey, I used to pick Monkey Brains from trees when I was a kid!!!

I never knew I was cutting it so close! :chatter

:lol I don't know if it is from eating the brains but that is how i picture it in my head.

I can't tell if you're serious or not (damn internet), but why would you contract AIDS ONLY from the brains, when it's a sexually transmitted dieseise in your bloodstream?

dunno zoonotic diseases are weird.

I think that prions and certain viruses are the transmitted-by-brain stuff, but not ebola necessarily. I think you just need contact with blood or bodily fluids for that.

Don't cows get mad cow disease from eating other cows?

I think they get it from "meal" made from slaughter byproducts that include marrow and brains and stuff.

I'm not 100%, I haven't had to write a paper on it for...god, almost 8 years now.

so it would only make sense to get aids from eating monkey brains....right?

not really...it all depends on the specific virus and what whatever part is contaminated with, I guess. I'm not in med school anymore so I resigned my authority.

You know how if you kill certain bugs they give off a strong odor so the rest of its ilk will find you and then bug you too? I bet the same thing happens with aids and monkeys.

HIV can be transmitted through the blood. :rolleyes. You don't have to eat a Green Monkey or have sex with it to contract it.

My understanding was that the way that humans first contracted AIDS was from eating monkey brains or something of that nature. Then the brain eaters did the horizontal momba and eventually... We lost Freddy.

But I'm not a doctor.

OMG YOU GUYS ARE NUTS! Please don't sustain any rumors on ******s and monkeys and AIDS.

IT'S TRUE! Wikipedia says so! :eek

I think history is a bit fuzzy on AIDS before the whole promiscuous-French-Canadian-Flight-Attendant thing.

Any animal virus gets transferred to humans via sexual contact
eg swine flu=some dirty mexican fucked a pig
AIDS=some african fucked an ape
Bird Flu= a dirty asian rooted a chicken (Tadao?)