Smuggled Bushmeat Is Ebola's Back Door to America Aug 21, 2014 at 10:35 AM EDT . A man buys bush meat at a market in Yopougon, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. May 27, 2006.

Alice Jallabah, head of a bushmeat seller group, holds dried bushmeat on October 7, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The Ebola outbreak has resulted in a ban on eating bushmeat.

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 ...

Previous outbreaks of Ebola are also credited to the bushmeat trade, particularly the capturing and butchering of infected animals. It is even thought one or more HIV strains originated from ...

FILE - Alice Jallabah, head of a bushmeat seller group, holds dried bushmeat on Oct. 7, 2014, in Monrovia. The outbreak of the Ebola virus in Liberia led to a ban on eating bushmeat.

To the foreign eye, it looks like a flattened, blackened lump of unidentifiable animal parts. To many Africans, however, bush meat — the cooked, dried or smoked remains of a host of wild animals ...

Bushmeat in Africa has been shown to be the source of scourges such as HIV. More recently, bushmeat may be to blame for the 2014 Ebola outbreak, which sent a chill down the spines of epidemic experts.

Despite the fears over bushmeat, Swanepoel says study of Ebola and Marburg outbreaks since 1976 indicate it is close contact with bats in particular that seems to be behind the transmission to ...

Bushmeat is not only back on the stalls at Oluwo market. For the first time in months, meat sellers are back on roadsides targetting drivers and their passengers, just like before the Ebola outbreak.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast >> As the deadly outbreak of Ebola has subsided, people in several West African countries are flocking to eat bushmeat again after restrictions were lifted on the consump… ...