Yes, an Armadillo Can Give You Leprosy 151
sciencehabit writes "For years, scientists have speculated that armadillos can pass on leprosy to humans, and that they are behind the few dozen cases of the disease that occur in the US every year. Now, they have evidence. A genetic study published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that US armadillos and human patients share what seems to be a unique strain of the bacterium that causes leprosy. If an armadillo's blood 'got on my tires of my car from running [the animal] over, I would wash it down,' advises one expert. 'And I would not dig in soil that has a lot of armadillo excrement.'"
Hellfire (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Cool! We've never had a chiropractic troll befo (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot is one of the more rational and skeptical sites on the Internet.
Have you any idea how much it scares me that this is true?
Re:Taste? (Score:2, Insightful)
Or, as I temporarily put on my vegetarian's advocate hat, just eat the grain and then some other non-meat sustenance and not kill any animals or contribute to the extra energy waste and pollution inherent in raising animals to eat.
Look in the mirror and open your mouth. See those incisors? They're for chewing meat. See those molars? They're for grinding grains.
You're an omnivore. Fucking deal with it.