i bet you wouldn't want this disease....

[Ns1]

The disease targets the reproductive organs of the primate. The consequences for male baboons are particularly gruesome, says Elibariki Mtui, of the African Wildlife Foundation in Arusha, Tanzania. "The genitals kind of rot away, then they just drop off," he told New Scientist.

linky

 

[erikiksaz]

:Q <-- speechless. If this damned disease ever finds a way into humans, they best jump on it!

 

[Wallydraigle]

sucks

 

[Rhetorical]

well, that sucks.

 

[Zim Hosein]

"If it's sexually transmitted then it could spread,"

This is really bad news

 

[Banana]

My memory fails me: Did HIV evolve from SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus)? I hope no one takes a "liking" to baboons . . . :Q

 

[ScrapSilicon]

 

[Mallow]

Does she want to attract lots of males, to obscure paternity?

lol, what a moron.

I don't think I want any disease... however, this one sounds excessively bad!

 

[Red Dawn]

i bet you wouldn't want this disease....

I bet you're right!

 

[BaDaBooM]

How do new diseases just appear? Were they there all along? Are they just mutations of other virii/baterium?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: BaDaBooM
How do new diseases just appear? Were they there all along? Are they just mutations of other virii/baterium?

they overcome they adapt...just like all life...they just do it faster

 

[Dragnov]

imtim wouldn't mind.

I kid, I kid. That was a low blow...

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: Mallow

Does she want to attract lots of males, to obscure paternity?

lol, what a moron.

I don't think I want any disease... however, this one sounds excessively bad!

 

[Azraele]

:Q

 

[Actaeon]

Originally posted by: Mallow

Does she want to attract lots of males, to obscure paternity?

lol, what a moron.

I don't think I want any disease... however, this one sounds excessively bad!

My words exactly!

 

[her209]

Sounds nice.

 

[MithShrike]

Originally posted by: 1YellowPeril
My memory fails me: Did HIV evolve from SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus)? I hope no one takes a "liking" to baboons . . . :Q

Not just taking a liking to 'em either... it's suspected that AIDS also came from eating the simians...

 

[LordMaul]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

"If it's sexually transmitted then it could spread,"

This is really bad news

Not really, unless you're into that whole man-on-baboon sex...?

 

[Spac3d]

ow:Q

 

[Instan00dles]

It better not jump species, I dont wanna lose ma boys.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK
imtim wouldn't mind.

I kid, I kid. That was a low blow...

hahhahahahha

 

[hdeck]

i wouldn't want any disease, thank you.

 

[AAjax]

Reminds me of the Cheap Trick lyric "Just the other day I heard a soldiers falling off, some Indonesian junk that's going round."


Eeeek!

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: hdeck
i wouldn't want any disease, thank you.

 

[Furyline]

I'm just wondering, how can you spread the disease sexually if your genitals fall off?:Q