Good for them: West Africans keep eating bush meat despite it being illegal and frowned upon by conservationists

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, from rats and bats to monkeys - is not only the food of their forefathers, it is life-sustaining protein where nutrition is scarce.

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Good for them: West Africans keep eating bush meat despite it being illegal and frowned upon by conservationists 1407260583368.jpg-620x349

And as it has been during past Ebola outbreaks, bush meat is once again suspected to have been the bridge that caused the deadly disease to go from the animal world to the human one. All it takes is a single transmission event from animal to human - handling an uncooked bat with the virus, for example - to create an epidemic. Human-to-human contact then becomes the primary source of infection.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/why-west-africans-keep-eating-bush-meat-which-could-be-ebolas-bridge-from-animals-to-humans-20140806-100u73.html

Good for them: West Africans keep eating bush meat despite it being illegal and frowned upon by conservationists

Good for them: West Africans keep eating bush meat despite it being illegal and frowned upon by conservationists

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