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At least ten restaurants were caught in the act of selling wild animal meat. Officials seized over 300 kilos of wildlife meat from these restaurants. Seized meats included weasel, pangolin, chamois, monkeys, panthers, and snakes that had been embalmed.
Purely coincidentally I have just made a post to this thread Emerging disease maps and charts in which I include some links. The most relevant of which to this discussion is a TEDtalk by Nathan Wolfe who is involved in a program studying emerging pathogens in tropical African bushmeat hunters, and their prey. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/na...next_aids.html
same problem just coming at it from a slightly different perspective.
HCMC wildlife consumption on the rise: survey
Last updated: 5/27/2011 8:00
Conservationists say Vietnam should educate youth about public health risks involved in wildlife meat consumption
More than half of Ho Chi Minh City residents have used wild animal products in their lifetime. Half of that group consumed the illegally-derived products three times or more.
The non-governmental conservation group, Wildlife At Risk (WAR), released the recent survey results on Monday (May 23).
...... “If you look at the wildlife trade in Vietnam, [the animals] are very often unhealthy,” she said. “They are infected with diseases and often injured.” Clark said that the consumers of these animals should be aware that they are taking serious health risks.
Scientists plan to investigate a "marine bushmeat trade" after a major study showed that global consumption of marine mammals such as whales and dolphins is increasing.
African monkey meat that could be behind the next HIV
Deep in Cameroon's rainforests, poachers are killing primates for food. Evan Williams reports from Yokadouma on a practice that could create a pandemic
Evan Williams
Yokadouma
Friday 25 May 2012
Deep in the rainforest of south-east Cameroon, the voices of the men rang through the trees. "Where are the white people?" they shouted. The men, who begin to surround us, are poachers, who make their money from the illegal slaughter of gorillas and chimpanzees. They disperse but make it known that they are not keen for their activities to be reported; the trade they ply could not only wipe out critically endangered species but, scientists are now warning, could also create the next pandemic of a deadly virus in humans.
Eighty per cent of the meat eaten in Cameroon is killed in the wild and is known as "bushmeat"...
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