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08-02-2009, 12:03 PM
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| | | Countryfile-Rats
Did anyone see todays countryfile the lead article was about Rats?
May have been a repeat
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Originally Posted by nightshade  Did anyone see todays countryfile the lead article was about Rats?
May have been a repeat | I missed it, could you tell me what happened?
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08-02-2009, 02:18 PM
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| | | Re: Countryfile-Rats
Why doesn't it show up on BBCi when its a bbc program..
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| | | Re: Countryfile-Rats
Its on BBCi now, I've just watched it.
I was a little dissapointed by the lack of facts though. I thought they were going to tell me how likely it is for rats to pass on dangerous diseases to humans.
A Professor is interviewed and shows his impressive test results for Ljungan virus, which we are assured can possibly be dangerous to humans in various ways, but we're not really sure at all because this hasn't been studied yet.
He then goes on to say his test results are from 4 species of rodent, but then informs us that his lab hasn't actually tested any rats yet, yet he is sure that if they did, they would find ljungan virus there too.
Hmm, what kind of unscientific babble is this then? If you are going to interview a Professor about whether rats infect humans with dangerous diseases you would have thought they could have actually provided a scrap of evidence. Instead, the Professor finishes with:
"Rodents and rats in particular have long been recognised as a threat to human helath, and in that sense nothing has changed ..."
Well, nothing has changed because he doesn't have any evidence at all to confirm or deny this notion.
Oh dear.
Well now I'm off to Google "ljungan virus" instead.
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