iwilleatyourenglish:

unclefather:

unclefather:

If you eat a raw dead rat in 2019 you deserve the bubonic plague

we’ve all thought about eating a pigeon but it doesn’t mean you just pick one off the street and bite into it

this post is… not great.

the people who died were an ethnic Kazakh couple in a small Mongolian town. they didn’t eat a dead rat, they ate raw organs from a marmot they had hunted.

the plague is an endemic disease in Mongolia, spread largely through contact with marmots (largely as a result of their fleas). unfortunately, due to a lack of information, some people in Mongolia subscribe to the folk belief that eating raw marmot will lead to good health.

this couple contracted the disease–which is very treatable with antibiotics–but did not receive adequate care in time and, as a result, suffered horrifically before dying. they left behind four children, ranging in age from 14-years-old to 9 months. they did not deserve to die.