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What do you do with the body? |
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Incinerate it, to power the device. In any case, incinerate it to remove the hazard. |
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Spread the ashes on the lawn. Keep the garden looking good for the next rabid critter. |
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How does the test work so fast? Can you do elisa assays on
breath? Methinks not, alas. |
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Maybe you could just measure the amount of slobber dribbling down it's rabid chin? |
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Might not work ... in these populations where it's endemic, there's a significant proportion of asymptomatic carriers. |
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//How does the test work so fast? Can you do elisa assays on breath? Methinks not, alas.// |
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Bit worried about that one. I thought of perhaps doing a quick automated microscopy and shape match (Lyssavirus usually has a bullet shape) to a known virus shape much the same way it is being used on a much larger scale to identify feral animals in Australia, for trapping or exclusion from water sources. |
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//significant proportion of asymptomatic carriers// I am going to stick my neck out here and say that these will be more of a problem than symptomatic carriers as they can pass the virus on but will not be harmed by it, like a Typhoid Mary. |
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Would be good if the CO2 produced by the burning critter could, in a bitter, ironic and twisted way, be returned to the killing jar [+] |
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I thought he was referring to the dribble, not the presence of the virus in their saliva. I am pretty sure asymptomatic carriers would still yield high virus counts. |
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I like your way of thinking [copro]. |
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If you get the test working and the critter is found to not be rabid could you work in the delivery of a prophylactic before sending it on it's never-to be-rabid way?
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// for trapping or exclusion from water sources//
But being hydrophobic, they'd stay away from water anyway, shirley?
//could you work in the delivery of a prophyactic [sic]//
Ever tried to persuade a squirrel to wear one? Thought not. |
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//Ever tried to persuade a squirrel to wear one?// |
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Maybe if you put some nuts inside... |
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//But being hydrophobic, they'd stay away from water anyway, shirley?// |
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Hah! That statement might have some currency if there was any rabies in Australia... there's not. |
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New animal drafting software applications use silhouette detection to trigger a gate system which routes pigs, goats and camels back out to pasture or into a holding pen, for eradication. Sheep, kangaroos, cattle and horses get to the water while the others miss out or are trapped. |
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//use silhouette detection to trigger a gate system //
I foresee plastic surgery becoming popular amongst undesireable ungulates. |
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If honey was used as the bait, bees could do the detecting for you. [link] |
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Well, now it has got some bees, all it needs is marmalade, you can't jam a rabid animal into a cage. |
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I guess that depends upon how much jam you use and how sticky it is. |
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//Well, now it has got some bees, all it needs is marmalade// sp. "banjoes" |
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// Maybe if you put some nuts inside // |
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And for that, you deserve no mercy WHATSOEVER ..... |
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