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A Thai pistillate was arrested aft she posted a video of herself eating bat crockery to her Facebook leafage connected Monday.
Phonchanok Srisunaklua, who identified herself arsenic Khru (teacher) Jui successful her video, is facing up to 5 years successful situation and/or a good of up to 500,000 baht (approximately $13,800) for possession of protected wildlife carcasses and for crimes violating the Computer Crimes Act (2007) successful Sakhon Nakhon province, Thailand.
Srisunaklua, who is besides a teacher, posted the clip connected her Facebook leafage Kin Saeb Nua Nua (Eating it Delicious and Hot), which has 392,000 followers.
In the video, Srisunaklua tin beryllium seen spreading the lesser Asiatic yellowish bats’ wings earlier tearing it isolated to devour it. She reportedly bought the bats astatine a marketplace adjacent the Laos borderline successful bluish Thailand, wherever bats that are infected with the closest comparative to SARS-CoV-2 tin besides beryllium found.
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The pistillate described the bat, which was boiled successful a vessel of spicy soup, arsenic “delicious.” She reportedly said that it was her archetypal clip consuming a bat, adding that its nails smelled similar a rat and its tegument was sticky. She told viewers that she was not trying to dispersed immoderate coronavirus, arsenic residents successful her country besides ate bats.
However, galore viewers recovered the video disturbing and criticized her for risking an outbreak of caller diseases.
“If you’re going to die, dice alone. No 1 volition blasted you. But you’ll beryllium damned if you commencement a pandemic,” 1 spectator reportedly wrote.
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On Monday, Srisunaklua wrote she was “still alive” nether her post, and she added that the video was changeable 2 days earlier.
After the clip went viral, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) warned the public not to eat bats owed to wellness concerns. Dr. Chakkarat Pittayawong-anont, the manager of the Epidemiology Division astatine the DDC, said humans tin easy declaration diseases from bats, adding that its feces unsocial tin origin respiratory infections.
“I was shocked to spot it successful the clip now. Because the incidental should not hap some successful Thailand and astir the world, it is precise risky behavior, particularly arsenic bats person a batch of pathogens. There is nary impervious that the blistery h2o somesthesia volition really termination the germs. Just touching the saliva, blood, and the tegument is considered a risk," veterinarian Pattaraphon Manee-on of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said:
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“Besides the interest astir the illness successful bats, this pistillate could beryllium blameworthy of breaking the Preservation and Protection and Wildlife Act, B.E. 2019, due to the fact that bats are protected animals,” helium added.
On Tuesday, Kaset Sutecha, a lecturer astatine Kasetsart Universikhruty’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, reportedly said that determination are much than 60 types of viruses that person been detected successful bats that tin dispersed to humans. He besides noted that the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which originated successful Wuhan, China, dispersed to humans from bats.
Although Jui initially denied the charges made against her, she aboriginal posted a caller video online to apologize to “society, doctors, journalists, colleagues, household and friends,” adding that she was “not thinking.”
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Srisunaklua besides promised to ne'er devour bats again.
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