Highlights:
- Drinking the blood of snakes like cobras can be costly to keep alive under any circumstances
- PETA warns UK’s Defense Minister that it could lead to epidemic
- Every year soldiers from all over the world arrive in Thailand to participate in the Cobra Gold Military Drill
It is bad news for soldiers around the world who drink blood of poisonous snakes like cobras and eat live scorpions to keep themselves alive in every situation. Peta, an animal rights organization, wrote a letter to the UK’s defense minister warning that such a practice, amidst the corona virus threat, caused viruses from snakes and other organisms such as covid-19 from inside animals or the bodies of humans from animals Illnesses entering the body of soldiers can enter.
In fact, every year soldiers from all over the world arrive there to participate in the Cobra Gold Military Drill to be held in Thailand. During this time these soldiers practice killing and then eating exceptionally alive animals so that they can stay alive. During this time the soldiers drink snake blood during field training, practice to eat scorpions or lizards alive. PETA warned that by drinking the snake’s blood or eating them alive, viruses such as corona or animal diseases could enter the human body.
75% of diseases spread from animals to humans
He said that this could lead to another epidemic. Let us tell you that in the Cobra Gold Military Drill held last year, American soldiers were captured on camera luring the skins of lizards and scorpions and eating them alive. Not only this, during the drill, a snake was killed by drinking the blood coming out of its head by the soldiers. People reacted sharply when its pictures went viral.
PETA quoted the US CDC as saying that 75 percent of diseases are spreading from animals to humans. According to an estimate, since the 1970s, three dozen infectious diseases have spread due to human animal habitat manipulation. These include SARS, Marsa, Ebola, Bird Flu, Swine Flu and Zika Virus etc. Scientists claim that the corona virus is also spread by bats.
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