Posted on 10/18/2014 6:47:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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?
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, principally chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats and monkeys. It can even include porcupines, rats and snakes.
In some remote areas it is a necessary source of food - in others it has become a delicacy.
In Africa's Congo Basin, people eat an estimated five million tonnes of bushmeat per year, according to the Centre of International Forestry Research....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
How many people in the USA eat bushmeat? Deer, hog, dove, quail etc.. I wouldn’t eat venison that someone else processed and cooked if you held a gun to my head
The problem isn’t “bush meat” but “bat meat”. Just don’t eat the flying rats!
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Hunters help feed the needy with charitable venison donation program
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Am I to believe that animals can transmit the ebola virus?
More reason to isolate and observe Ms. Pham’s pet dog.
Statists’ latest attempt to ban all hunting? You KNOW the Feds would love to do it here in America. Hunting is a “gateway drug” to knowledge of guns, consideration of armed self-defense, living independently, and preparedness, which are all things FedGov is diametrically opposed to.
But these flying rats feed mainly on flying prey like mosquitoes.
Does this mean that ebola can be spread by insects like malaria can?
Actually, pork could be a problem. Pigs do get Ebola, and bats often live near pig farms.
That’s all well and good. I didn’t say that I don’t eat venison, i just prefer my own. When someone gives me venison, it usually goes in the pressure cooker and ends up dog food
That reminds me of the time my dad had a job running a boiler so that they could render fat down to pet food. Stinky!!
HIV is believed to have been transmitted to humans from an infected ape (SIV) when it was butchered for bush meat.
The bats in question are fruit bats.
Monkeys are the worst when it comes to viruses.
I did not know that you could get obola from bushmeat. I thought all you could get was salmoneggs.
“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.
If you had goats why would you need monkeys?
And apes and monkeys are so genetically close to humans that we should expect to get diseases from them.
Oh, and BTW, Liberians are predominately (85%) Christian.
I thought it was from naives screwing monkeys.
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