AR-News: (Bangladesh) It's nature fighting back!

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Sirajul Islam

The viruses that cause bird flu, Sars, and Ebola formerly affected only 
animals. For some reason, they crossed the border between species, and infected 
humans in Asia, particularly. But the mad cow disease that affected Americas 
traveled in the opposite direction. It crossed from humans to animals and back 
again. Mad cow disease was originally caused by human cannibalism. A small tribe 
in New Zealand ate their dead relatives as a sign of love and respect for 
them. They ate everything, including the brains, where the virus multiplied. 
Somehow, the virus crossed to animals. 
Because of man's greed for profit, ranchers rendered dead animals to feed the 
grass-eating sheep. The extra protein made them grow faster and fatter. Thus, 
the virus of the disease was transferred to them. The same thing happened to 
cattle. In feed lots where cattle from the ranches were fattened, they were 
fed protein from corn, soybeans -- mixed with rendered dead animals. Rendering 
is a process by which animals are boiled in huge vats until the fat melts and 
the tissues break down. The resulting brew is then dried and mixed with animal 
feed. The virus punches holes in the brains of the animals so that they 
stagger about crazy until they fall and die, hence the term "mad cow" disease. 
Ebola used to be confined to monkeys. Primitive African tribes, who hunted 
wild animals for food, including monkeys, got the disease from them. Ebola is a 
horrible disease. The victim bleeds and rots from inside -- literally. Blood 
oozes out of every orifice in the body. This oozing is very contagious. 
Laboratories in the United States that used monkeys for their experiments had to kill 
all the monkeys in their compounds.




full story:

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/02/11/d402111503102.htm 

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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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