A couple in Mongolia recently contracted septicemic plague and died after eating raw marmot meat, officials with the World Health Organization said. By Allyson Chiu Allyson Chiu Reporter with the Morning Mix team Email Bio Follow May 8 at 6:48 AM For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia’s westernmost province were largely deserted.
In this case, however, Ochirpurev said consuming the marmot raw resulted in what was probably an agonizing death. The decision to impose the quarantine came after officials became worried that the husband and wife had developed pneumonic plague, which can be swiftly passed to other people through airborne droplets, Ochirpurev said. Pneumonic plague is the “most serious form of the disease” and the only type that can spread from person to person, according to the CDC. If left untreated, cases of the plague have a 30 to 100 percent fatality rate, the WHO said.
Deaths caused by the plague — a disease carried by small rodents that was responsible for wiping out about 60 percent of Europe’s population nearly 700 years ago and killing millions in China, Hong Kong and nearby port cities in the late 1800s — are much more rare in modern times because of antibiotics, according to the CDC. But reports of people getting infected have continued to pop up around the world, including in the United States, William L.
Gosnell said he has never heard of a person getting the plague from eating raw rodent meat, but added that “it wouldn’t be surprising.”
What a coulpe of stupid people
Just the thought of eating that shit is sickening. Yikes. Of course it could kill ya.
Huuh!!!
Thinning the herd
I mean, I don't want anyone to die. But that is just stupid. Smh
Way to cull the herd!
When they talked about eating whole foods, they were talking about fruits and vegetables after washing them.
Oh dear!
Some people are just so silly, now their children are orphans.
Darwin’s Theory
Idiots
Darwin award
Lord have mercy.
Trump really can’t afford to be losing more voters
Stupid is as stupid does
Ryan_Deem /removes raw Marmot from grocery list
Did they also have some fava beans and a nice chianti?
Now...they feed vegans.
🤣
Arrest whomever told them that.
Thoughts and prayers.
Too bad …. Ignorant people believe these so-called health benefits put forth by con-men .
Karma
Darwin's theory at work.
Must be liberals to be that stupid
Stupidity
I can understand herbs but raw meat is insane
catmancatman864 Lolololol
Haha 😂
I mean..... what did they expect?
Can’t get sick of you’re dead.
It’s called ”culling the herd”...
I like the kidneys with fava beans and a glass of luke warm NightTrain!
Chipotle sells raw Marmot now?
Natural selection at work here.
Ignorance and stupidity is its own rewards.
Why. Why would you eat a rodent, period? Let alone RAW?! And voluntarily. I thought we as a species established long ago that rodent is not for human consumption.
morgfair Darwinism
Darwin in action.
👏👏👏
What a liberal thing to do
Whoops.
Sounds about white.
Darwin Award.
Are you sure it wasn’t the fava beans?
Good, two less dumbass humans on the planet!
This was probably an application for the Darwin Award!!
How did the belief that it had health benefits get started? Internet?
How do I laugh react?
We are going to stupid ourselves out of existence....and frankly...sometimes I think we deserve it...lord knows this planet deserves a break from us as a species
Yup...this made me Lol.
I am NOT signing up/subscribing WaPo.....I will read this on another free site.
What the H.. is wrong with people in
Buh-bye.
karma
EvelDick consciouslycait
Trump voters.
Natural selection working perfectly
Next year, no medical bills...
I feel bad for their kids the Plague much like Ebola terrify me but damn how stupid can you be 😒
Well...who told them that this would be healthy?
You can not be serious, wow.
I’m going to hell for laughing...I know.
Horray! Darwinism in action idiots
Natural selection at work ...
Darwin explains it.
Lol!! It looks like Jacob Wohl might have some serious competition for king of the self own.😂😂😂😂
So the plague is now gonna be back too. Great.
Natural selection...? It's survival of the most intelligent... Apparently they weren't...
Today in We can’t believe that we have to report this shit
That goes in the same book of fools who don’t get vaccinated.
Darwin's theory at work.
Is that considered “suicide by stupidity”?
That is called a culling of the herd. If someone is stupid enough to eat a raw rotten. They deserve to catch the plague. I know its mean.
Stupid is as stupid does
Lolololol
Should have had a donut instead.
EvelDick This is why I stick raw oysters.
Marmot 1 Humans 0 Serves them right. RIP Marmot
😂
If only the stuck an onion in there shoes?
Quite simple: dumbshts
Note to self....
This is pretty much the same thing as anti-vaxxers.
Not enough soy sauce.
KatCapps Together In death as in life
Did they forgot to flavor it with essential oils?
My question is, what woo woo grifter sold raw marmot meat as snake oil to obviously ill informed, gullible people and orphaned 4 kids in the process?
Darwinism A beautiful thing, if we just let it work it’s magic.
God’s way of thinning out the herd
Wild is wild. Leave it alone. Idiots.
NaturalSelection
Yeah, don’t do that.
This is news?
Darwin Award nominees
Yikes what the hell is marmot?
One word: Darwinism
So. Awesome.
Thinning the herd...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😃
Im sorry but they deserved what they got
Good grief
A great example of liberal thinking!
😳 Um ... nothing. I thought I had something to say but, no, nothing.
And the Darwin award goes to......
Are they from Florida?
I suppose laughing wasn’t the right reaction? I’m terrible.
Raw=Darwin Award
Darwin’s theory’s at play here.
You really have a to be a marmot...
Holy shit. I don’t even like rice pudding.
Ignorance and 3rd world beliefs kill, same thing is starting to happen in the USA thanks to the Christian Fundies pulling Trumps strings.
the gene pool needs thinning
That did not end well for them...
Lol
Anyone want to guess what those morons’ opinion was on vaccination?
Darwinism at its finest.
They got the Black Plague?
There is no justice for idiots.
I love my raw marmot meat with a finely chilled Sauvignon Blanc
Some people are ridiculously stupid.
That was smart.
And still, the shallow end of the gene pool is overflowing
Darwin Award.
Were they anti-vaxers?
The revenge of Ser Jorah.
And the Darwin award goes to...
Cleanse the gene pool ...
NYCJT2
Two less liberals in the world.
It’s just not sushi
Trump supporters.
RIP Jenny McCarthy
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