[Straight Vermonter]

The problem isn’t “bush meat” but “bat meat”. Just don’t eat the flying rats!

HIV is believed to have been transmitted to humans from an infected ape (SIV) when it was butchered for bush meat.

[Tupelo]

“HIV is believed to have been transmitted to humans from an infected ape (SIV) when it was butchered for bush meat.”

That ain’t what I heard. I heard it was monkeys and what some of the goatherders were doing with/to the monkeys. I guess it was pretty lonely out there in the Veldt.