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EBOLA, HIV and now ...ZIKA ! - ketchim - 11-18-2014

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Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

First it was the Chimpanzee with the HIV virus.


Now bush meat and EBOLA !


Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

Bushmeat is believed to be the origin of the current Ebola outbreak.

The first victim's family hunted bats, which carry the virus. :-[


Could the practice of eating bushmeat, which is popular across Africa :

be responsible for the current crisis? 

Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

Like Kinshasha and HIV

The origin has been traced to a two-year-old child from the village of Gueckedou

in south-eastern Guinea, an area where batmeat is frequently hunted and eaten.  Sad

Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

The infant, dubbed Child Zero, died on 6 December 2013.  The child's family stated

they had hunted two species of bat which carry the Ebola virus.

Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

Bushmeat or wild animal meat covers any animal that is killed for consumption including

antelopes, chimpanzees, fruit bats and rats.

It can even include porcupines and snakes.

Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

In Africa's Congo Basin, people eat an estimated five million tonnes of bushmeat per year,

according to the Centre of International Forestry Research. (click)

Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

You are what you eat ?  :-\

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Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

We are what we eat ?  :-\

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Re: Bush Meat - ketchim - 11-18-2014

More than 100,000 bats are thought to be eaten in Ghana each year  :-[

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