Facts About Bushmeat and Ebola

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• Alternative Title:
  Facts About Bushmeat and Ebola [English]
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.
• Description:
  Bushmeat: The term “bushmeat” refers to meat that comes from wild animals captured in developing regions of the world such as Africa; Bushmeat comes from a variety of wild animals, including bats, nonhuman primates (e.g., monkeys), cane rats (grasscutters), and duiker (antelope); and, It is often smoked, dried, or salted and considered a treat to some, a main food source to others.
  
  Bushmeat Health Concerns: Bushmeat could be infected with germs that can cause sickness in people, including the Ebola virus; Ebola is not generally spread through food, but the hunting, butchering, and processing of bushmeat brings people into contact with blood and other fluids of a potentially infected animal; and, Ebola infections in people have been associated with handling and eating infected animals.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Animals, Wild / Microbiology Disease Reservoirs Ebolavirus Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Transmission Meat / Microbiology
• Keywords:
  Ebola Ebola Virus Ebola Virus Disease Orthoebolavirus
• Series:
  Facts About Bushmeat and Ebola
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions ; Global Health
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c6b6b932789734c9bdc994aedf1a1c611af83fcb564c5ba4ab9b5419717a1a09d53b52c389bae12052a1c0b5489f2f7ee2a8e97e8de01861c1406bae22465d23
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25538/cdc_25538_DS1.pdf
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