We write to highlight an urgent, yet preventable public health tragedy unfolding in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In May, 2025, eight Indigenous Achuar children from Taisha—an Amazonic village from the ...

[LAGOS] The use of social media by West African vendors to promote the illegal sale of bushmeat should be regulated to help prevent the emergence of diseases transmitted from animals to humans, a ...

From HIV/AIDS to Ebola to mpox and possibly COVID, ... who conducted a separate survey on the effect of the 2014 Ebola outbreak on bushmeat consumption in Liberia but was not involved in the new ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say they have confiscated bushmeat multiple times since December at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Bushmeat comes from wild animals in certain parts of the world like Africa and may pose communicable disease risk. These animals include bats, nonhuman primates, cane rats and antelope.

Bushmeat could be infected with germs that can cause sickness in people, including Ebola, a rare and deadly disease that is spread through direct contact with the blood or body fluids of someone ...

Bushmeat is considered a virus vector and a cause of countless diseases. But the problem goes far beyond the consumption of bat stew. ... Whether bird flu, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, ...

“In the Ebola crisis in West Africa, all the bushmeat markets were closed, nobody was eating meat, you didn’t find it in any restaurants anymore,” he said. The curb on bushmeat hunting was ...

Bushmeat is a catchall phrase for the meat of wild animals, ... Fruit bats were also the likely source of the Ebola epidemic in western Africa that killed more than 11,000 people between 2014 and ...

In January, scientists announced that, for the first time, they had found a deadly strain of Ebola in a bat in Liberia. It's a significant discovery that could shed light on how the virus infects ...

Ebola spreads through contact with bodily fluids—such as blood, urine, feces, vomit, breast milk, and saliva—from people who have fallen ill or died from EVD. The virus gets into the body ...