Bats, anyhow
At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.
Laboratory investigations have yet to confirm the cause, but the symptoms point to rabies, according to two researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and other medical experts.
Yikes!
And of course Chavez immediately blamed US Imperialism for the vampire bats. He then implemented new “laws” that in order to save people from the vampire bats seized 12 industries to be ran by the government and had a thousand opponents arrested and reprogrammed.