Would you eat a chicken that died through sickness, or injury?

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I would not eat infected or sick birds at all bats not at all

I wouldn't eat a bat either unless I was desperate, but these people sure love them.

 

[Tesumph]

Your doing what scientists do who try to protect an idea: come up with explanations without any evidence for said claims.

Point me to a study that demonstrates HIV isolation.

I don’t want to argue, there’s plenty of wonderful studies on HIV isolation and research, but you could start here.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/2949638/

Edit: and with that I’ll back out, I’m afraid I’ve derailed poor Shadrach’s thread enough.
Thank you for the extremely interesting topic point, sir!

 

[Cyprus]

Point me to evidence.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...epidemic-killed-more-11000-people-west-africa

Fruit bats are the species native to and eaten in Ivory Coast.
Long-Fingered bats are the species native to and carriers of Ebola in Liberia.

 

[Cyprus]

I wouldn't eat a bat either unless I was desperate, but these people sure love them.

Different culture. They believe the bat has medicinal properties.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Nope have my limits there sorry

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/2949638/

That 1987 study is paywalled. I think they probably claimed to have isolated it; this article addresses their flaws.

http://virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/ppisolation.htm

 

[HuffleClaw]

Even though this thread is really starting to get off-topic...

No, I would not eat a bird that died of/with a disease.

 

[Cyprus]

That 1987 study is paywalled. I think they probably claimed to have isolated it; this article addresses their flaws.

http://virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/ppisolation.htm

This source lacks both authority and credibility.

 

[aart]

Yup! But all relevant. Zoonotic diseases are important for animals keepers to understand. Not every pathogen is spread the same way.
What if a bat that was hosting the Ebola virus bit a chicken? Would the chicken show symptoms? Could you eat the chicken?

All good questions, but maybe not for this thread.

Even though this thread is really starting to get off-topic

Kind of.... but very few threads stay on topic?

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...epidemic-killed-more-11000-people-west-africa

Fruit bats are the species native to and eaten in Ivory Coast.
Long-Fingered bats are the species native to and carriers of Ebola in Liberia.

You need to read the articles you link to. It says that fruit bats are considered a vector. Also the ebola virus was not isolated from the long-fingered bat; just RNA fragments.

The researchers didn't isolate the virus itself but found about one-fifth of its genome in the animal