... da ich ein paar Tage unterwegs war sehe ich jetzt erst, dass du einen Ebola
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Vielleicht mal was zum Thema bushmeat (das Wörtchen 'Wildverzehr' in der SZ führt
hier m.E. leicht in die Irre)
Aus:
allafrica.com/stories/201409031432.html
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Bogor, Indonesia - Tens of millions of Africans rely on bushmeat and wild fish for up to 80 percent of their protein, and recent calls to end the trade in the food because of links to Ebola virus outbreaks could never be enforced, said Robert Nasi, Deputy Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
He said that people living in Africa's Congo Basin annually eat about 5 million tons of bushmeat - from caterpillars to elephants.
"That's about the equivalent of the cattle production of Brazil or the European Union. Bushmeat is the cheapest protein available beside caterpillars."
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Ebola kills these animals. Ebola kills more gorillas and chimpanzees than it probably kills people every year. And what is happening is that people find dead animals in the forest, and they take this animal and they use them for bushmeat or, in the case of a gorilla sometimes, for cultural or magical practices. And by butchering an animal that has been infected, because Ebola is transmitted by contact, they get infected themselves
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