[Newsbot]

Title: Plague found in Saskatchewan prairie dog
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-08-13 20:05:41
Canadian

[Dragom]

You know, as a farming lad in Sask, I've shot and handled a lot of gophers.

I'm sure there are still lads doing the same across the prairies.

[Brenda]

$1:

Symptoms are flu-like and can include vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain.

Another vague thing, that you don't go to the doctor for for a while...

[Freakinoldguy]

And to think some enterprising people were catching and shipping them off to Japan as pets back in the 90's.

I wonder how many Japanese thought their vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain were just a result of a night out on the Ginza?

[ShepherdsDog]

write it off as sashimi that was a little off.