Chlamydia strikes penguin colony

[Conservativesux]

Chlamydia strikes penguin colony

Sat May 7, 6:13 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A mysterious outbreak of chlamydia, a bacterial infection which humans pass to each other through sex, has killed a dozen penguins at the San Francisco Zoo, a zoo spokeswoman said on Friday.

The illness turned the zoo's Magellanic penguin colony into a disease hot spot, sparking fatal respiratory distress and kidney failure that struck down 12 of the birds.

The illness that befell the zoo's "Penguin Island" was not sexually transmitted, officials said.

"We suspect it could have something to do with the gulls and their droppings but it could have been something else," zoo spokeswoman Nancy Chan said.

More:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050507/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_penguins_chlamydia

[fortyfeetunder]

1. Human disease passed on to animals

instead of the other way around.

It reminds me of a joke, I won't tell it because otherwise it might invite a letter from the DU moderators...

[gulfcoastliberal]

2. Damn, looks like George has been milking the penguins...

Seriously though, poor penguins.

[daleo]

3. God must hate penguins.

Fundamentalists know that Chlamydia is God's punishment for sex. Maybe God feels penguins have become arrogant, in their little tuxedos, the way Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden.

[CoffeeCat]

4. Penguins getting chlamydia proves that...

...the transmission of STDs isn't as "black and white" as health professionals onces assumed.

Get it?

I'll be here all week folks!

Remember to tip your waiter!

[entanglement]

5. Bad

<----- How do I protect Tux from getting it :)

[awoke_in_2003]

6. enroll him in an abstinence training program...

at your local high school.:7

[Coventina]

7. It's their punishment for being gay

Anyone remember that episode of "The Daily Show" with the gay penguins?

Anyone?

[varun]

8. "Abstinence Only"

is the way to treat this problem

<sarcasm>

[thebigidea]

9. life begins to resemble a Chris Morris tv show more and more...

its like something out of The Day Today!

[thebigidea]

dupe

[thebigidea]

dupe - computer going nuts

[thebigidea]

10. dupe

[thebigidea]

11. dupe

christ, my computer went bonkers at the mere mention of VD...