Killing Monkeys!
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (57233)
August 11, 2022 10:33am CST
Fear of Monkeypox contagion has resulted in some residents of a South American country taking it upon themselves to kill mokeys!
You can read all about it in the attached AP report.
According to the World Health Organization(WHO) , the present transmission is strictly from human to human , so killing the animals is very wrong. Even though the virus was originally transmitted from monkeys to humans.
Over 90 countries now have cases presently - and Brazil has 1700 of the over 29,000 cases worldwide.
It is interesting to note that Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when 2 outbreaks occurred in colonies of monkeys being kept for RESEARCH. And despite being called Monkeypox, "the source of the disease remains unknown".
Pixabay image.
SAO PAULO (AP) — The World Health Organization expressed sorrow on Tuesday for the killing of monkeys in Brazil amid fears of monkeypox contagion. Brazilian news website G1 reported on Sunday that 10 monkeys had been poisoned in less than a week in the cit
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@DaddyEvil (174214)
• United States
11 Aug 22
People aren't very intelligent when they're scared and don't know what to do. They make up what seems like good ideas to them at the time and those ideas are often wrong... But you can't convince them of that.
Maybe scientists should stop naming diseases after an animal so people won't, maybe, reach wrong conclusions from those bad ideas... Scientists could just call diseases by a letter/number combination and save the lives of some poor, innocent animals.
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@DaddyEvil (174214)
• United States
12 Aug 22
@Kandae11 I think it would work and wouldn't make people think of different animals as being "responsible" for the sickness.
I HOPE it would work that way.
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@Kandae11 (57233)
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12 Aug 22
@DaddyEvil l hope the relevant people are listening or reading this post. Ha.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
12 Aug 22
That is just the name for that disease and yes nothing to do with monkeys They should all be sent to jail whoever is killing monkeys Cruelty indeed.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
12 Aug 22
@Kandae11 I hope they change the name of the disease. What got into their head I wonder in the first place
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
12 Aug 22
It’s sad that the monkeys are being killed.
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@DevMrSamEleazar (14164)
• Philippines
11 Aug 22
oh no this is scary. new problem in the world
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@DevMrSamEleazar (14164)
• Philippines
11 Aug 22
@Kandae11 yea from covid to second covid variant to monkeypox like OMG the world is gonna end
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@averygirl72 (38849)
• Philippines
12 Aug 22
Poor monkeys. This is alarming. I hope monkeypox will be controlled and stop spreading
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