Exploding toads

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4486247.stm

You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding

Let's hope this isn't a disease that can be passed to humans...

its scary, i saw it on the news today, poor toads...poor us if it can be passed to humans.

Jesus, when I saw the thread title I thought it was a humorous thread
on chumtoads or something. It is kinda funny in a strange and twisted
way, but I really hope I won't live to hear of exploding germans on the
news :sad: .

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Hold the phone, I just heard about this thing on the news! They said
pretty much what the article you found said, except for one more detail
which was overlooked by that article: it can be passed on to humans,
except that, rather than causing the victim to blow-up, it causes
"explosions" in and on the body!

GASP

poor me, im a dane, gerany is right next to me :sad:

how come its always the scandinavian dudes getting all the evil animal
stuff, last time it was huge crabs, and now exploding toads >:E

And WE'RE the ones next door to Ukraine (Chernobyl)!

Yeah, but the Chinese gets the SARS.

OMG - At least I live in southern germany - so the exploding toads are arround 900 miles away.

W00t, Canada.

Three Americans died in Iraq toda-- OH s**t EXPLODING FROGS, ACE!!!

I wonder if the medical doctors that examined the frogs ever bothered to look for the remains of firecrackers...

The only non-viral cause I could think of is an alternating electric field.
But, surely, that doesn't exist in a pond.

it looks like a territorial war to me, with possibly the newts filling up fake worms with crushed alka seltzers.

it looks like a territorial war to me, with possibly the newts filling up fake worms with crushed alka seltzers.

some friends of mine tryed that with sea gulls, they didn't burst like
we were told they would, they just fell to earth... vomited... flew
away.

there goes my PETA membership

Why can't it be bacterial- do you think a possible gas build up inside 'airtight' tissues is too rapid and can only be viral?

if bacteria can make a can of spam explode, why not a frog?

maybe the frogs ate something reeaaaly bad, like old spam or something, and maybe frogs are unable to fart,so they blow up.

I think that some toads were given a bad Botox shot to try to clear up those bumps on thier skin. afterwards the Botulins got in thier tummies and expanded from there.

Actually, no, i think it was newts too.

It's the martians! They're after us! They're trying to kill us all with
exploding frogs! And the CIA is in with them too!!!

didn't nostradamus say something about frogs causing devastation in the west?

fishy: Do you think that the armageddon is coming our way?

well if it is, i think that the world got enough big weapons to do something about those frogs.

Nuke the pond?

Follow-up: http://www.local6.com/news/4429888/detail.html

It seems that birds were pecking out their livers, which was causing them to swell and pop :redface:

Im sure its a kind of a virus or a bacteria that causes this exploding thingy..Or there might be something that changes there DNA which a frog cant tolerate...so they explode.Or maby area 51 is making an expirement??Or, its just...THE END OF THE WORLD !! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE !!...Who knows ??

But i think its a virus/bacterial/DNA matter :dorky:

Having talked to some Germans on the subject (Ding, might know who :wink: )
Appearantly its anti-German propaganda made up by every other media
source except Germany (to be honest I only found 1 German news source
who mentioned it).

But I also read that is happening in Denmark too... My personal theory, washing powder fizzing up in their stomachs...