What links a town in Germany to an African epidemic?


This was a story I missed in the actual magazine:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7073

But the latest is, it’ s OK to eat them, just make sure they’re cooked…!

People who eat cooked monkey meat are not necessarily at risk, since heat destroys the virus. But those who hunt and butcher the animals and handle the raw meat run a high risk of infection if the animal was sick.

(since March 21st: 266 cases, 244 deaths and counting…)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/health/26viru.html

Oh, wonderful; just wonderful. Hey, now here's a practical reason we first-worlds ought to band together and help the third world: if we don't want to do it out of generosity, perhaps we could do it for self-preservation.

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Word question: I noticed that the first article used the phrase non-human primates; are there human primates?

Humans are primates:
KINGDOM: Animalia
PHYLUM: Chordate
CLASS: Mammal
ORDER: Primates
FAMILY: Hominidae
GENUS: Homo
SPECIES: Sapiens

And, of course, there's Father Steve.

So true, dixbie. All humans are primate, but some are more primate than others. (sorry, Aldous)