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Sex cruises to Antarctica set to hasten demise of Earth’s last great wilderness
(www.dailymaverick.co.za)
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so it'll be herpes that kills off the last few penguins? didn't have that on my bingo card...
You can die from herpes? Probably more likely to die from beastiality rape.
As a matter of fact, yes. I was talking to a vet at a friend's wedding, and he casually mentioned that working with simians is a dangerous field for many reasons that you wouldn't think of, like their herpesvirus strains killing us.
Luckily it says it’s extremely rare
Well, yeah. The only way to get it is from contact with an infected monkey, or something that has recently contacted them, like a needle.
With no end to deforestation in sight, and fixing the housing crisis, monkeys have been sharing crack houses with humans