EBOLA, HIV and now ...ZIKA !

                             

First it was the Chimpanzee with the HIV virus.


Now bush meat and EBOLA !

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? 

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. 

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.

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.

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)

You are what you eat ?  :-\

                               

We are what we eat ?  :-\

                         

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