Ebola: Is bushmeat behind the outbreak?

BBC News Health ^ | October 18, 2014 | Melissa Hogenboom

[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....

[kaehurowing]

It’s all Bushmeat’s fault! — Barack Obola.

[BeadCounter]

Blame it on Bushmeat.

[KoRn]

I have lots of bushmeat, and I’ve never gotten a disease. Unlike many folks though, I get it from the same woman.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

That meat is probably their main source of protein. They’re better off with it than without.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

That’s nastier than Miley Cyrus’s chum bucket.

[FreeReign]

Should have listened to Jerkson.
Stay out of the bushmeats.

[Bogie]

Maybe it is time for Jewish dietary laws.

[Vermont Lt]

African Rednecks.

[vetvetdoug]

Pork is easy to raise and is healthy....but they are Moose Limbs.

[billorites]

Time for the bushmeat
Bury the bushmeat
take out the bushmeat time

[Molon Labbie]

Then you sir, are a Bushmaster.

[workerbee]

Lame.

[Oliviaforever]

Still blaming everything on George W Bush.

[Paladin2]

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[KoRn]

...I know...

lol

[goodwithagun]

Bushmeat? That’s what she said!

[onedoug]

Primitivism

I believe it’s a sin against God.

[tflabo]

animal(s) that are killed for consumption, principally chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats and monkeys. It can even include porcupines, rats and snakes.

They eat democrats over there? Keep em chowing down then.

[RichInOC]

“Bushmeat?”

“My favorite.”