The woman, in the remote village of Pinga in the northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo, may have caught the deadly hemorrhagic fever by eating
bushmeat or from another animal source, he said.
Denouncing those involved in such efforts as 'barbaric' is not simply shoddy journalism, but actively undermines crucial conservation efforts, without which the forest and animals here would simply become charcoal and
bushmeat, before quickly being replaced with maize and cattle.
Scientific research estimates that between 30 per cent and 85 per cent of daily protein intake of Africans come from
bushmeat. It is also estimated that two million metric tonnes of illegal
bushmeat are harvested each year in Africa with an estimated 300,000 tonnes consumed in Kenya.
After a person infected with Ebola develops symptoms of illness, they can spread Ebola to others.Additionally, Ebola virus usually is not transmitted by food unless in areas where people eat
bushmeat.
The cause of the monkeypox virus was identified through the
bushmeat that was eaten at a wedding ceremony.
Singapore has reported its first ever case of monkeypox, brought in by a Nigerian man thought to have contracted the rare virus by eating
bushmeat at a wedding.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 (KUNA) -- Singapore has reported its first case of the rare monkey pox virus brought in by a Nigerian man who authorities said may have been infected by
bushmeat he ate at a wedding.
I also followed her to the next village where she sold
bushmeat and supplied same to town that was about 10 km away from home town.
At the same time as illegal hunters kill the gorillas and sell them as '
bushmeat', their natural habitat has been pushed from all sides by a war that has been raging for close to 20 years.
Bushmeat is one such forest product, defined as wildlife harvested or hunted for human consumption and other purposes, such as medicinal use (Bowen-Jones et al.
Some 20,000 samples of small mammals and bats will be tested as part of a new study hoping to raise awareness of the risks posed by
bushmeat in spreading diseases to humans, a Forestry Administration official said on Tuesday.
Poaching attacks are a new danger to lions, which were already under serious threat across Africa from destruction of habitat and the snaring of their prey for
bushmeat. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons