Fifteen Teenage Boys Contact Rabies Disease After Raping A Donkey

About fifteen teenagers from a rural Moroccan town of Sidi Kacemhave have been treated for rabies after raping an infected donkey in the area.

The infected boys spent a week at the Mechraa Belksiri Hospital receiving treatments after they contracted the disease from the animal.

Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals. Symptoms includes: violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, fear of water, an inability to move parts of the body, confusion, dementia and loss of consciousness. Once symptoms appear, the result is nearly always death.

According to Morocco World News, the number of boys who raped the donkey were more than 15, but many families secretly took their sons for treatment at hospitals outside the immediate area to avoid shame.

Only 15 of the boys were taken to the local hospital.

The local authorities are trying to find anyone who has “approached” or “admired” the animal closely to limit further spread of disease.

The occurrence, has become the subject of mockery and ridicule among the population of the small town, has also become a subject of fear and shame for parents who in the utmost secrecy had their children vaccinated in case they had touched the animal.

Authorities have ordered the owner of the animal to slaughter it in other to avoid further spread of the deadly disease.