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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 03:21 AM
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Peru battles rabid vampire bats after 500 people bitten
Peru's health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats.

Four children in the Awajun indigenous tribe died after being bitten by the bloodsucking mammals.

Health workers have given rabies vaccine to more than 500 people who have also been attacked.

Some experts have linked mass vampire bat attacks on people in the Amazon to deforestation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10960389
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 03:45 AM
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1. Someone should invite President Two Breakfasts Garcia to that area to see
what his fine work has created, stealing land from the citizens living there, and giving it to corporations.

He could probably feed an entire leveled forest of bats.

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com.nyud.net:8090/gi/Obama+Meets+Peruvian+President+Alan+Garcia+zsy11PFFZnMl.jpg
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