Bushmeat species are ideal hosts for deadly diseases. For example, great apes are as adversely affected by the Ebola virus as humans. Ebola can be transmitted to humans from contact with contaminated meat and eating bushmeat is believed to be a cause of Ebola outbreaks in humans. With bushmeat becoming increasingly commercialized, this problem could quickly affect any of us. It is a huge possibility that this meat will be accompanied by zoonotic diseases.
In this episode, Oiza had a chat with Dr Mark Ufua, a vetenarian who explained how wild animals are carriers of zoonotic diseases and introduce another outbreak if they are not kept in the wild.
