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Urban wild meat and pangolin consumption across southern forested Cameroon: The limited influence of COVID‐19

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of wild meat and freshwater fish for children's nutritional intake in the Congo Basin

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat and freshwater fish are widely consumed in the Congo Basin, but in some areas, they are at risk of disappearing due to unsustainable hunting and fishing and changes in their habitat. Wild meat is also at risk of being eliminated from local diets due to potential policy changes such as wild meat bans.
Amy Ickowitz   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote sensing and dynamic modelling to forecast Rift Valley fever outbreaks in Senegal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral zoonosis, transmitted either through exposure to infected animals or through bites from infected mosquitoes, mainly from the Aedes or Culex genera.
Chevalier, Véronique   +8 more
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Prion diseases as zoonosis

open access: yesUirusu, 2005
Prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have been recognized as zoonosis since the existence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was reported in 1996. BSE became a serious social problem even in Japan after the first BSE case was found in 2001.
openaire   +3 more sources

How uneven access shapes the socio‐economic and environmental potential of game meat value chains: The case of legal game meat in Zambia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Game meat contributes to human nutrition, food security and sociocultural practices around the world. Game meat also comes with risks, including overharvesting and zoonotic and food‐borne disease. These may be pronounced where game meat travels along complex value chains from rural to urban areas.
Brock Bersaglio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of COVID‐19 on public perceptions of wild meat in Central Africa

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat is a significant source of food and income generation in Central Africa. However, there is little knowledge of how the assumed link between COVID‐19 and wild meat consumption has been discussed by the media and received by the public. In this study, we conducted media content analysis of 264 articles published in 2019–2020 related to
Yuhan Li   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leprosy - a zoonosis

open access: yesLeprosy Review, 1981
G P, Walsh   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Integration of animal health and public health surveillance sources to exhaustively inform the risk of zoonosis: An application to echinococcosis in Rio Negro, Argentina

open access: gold, 2020
Andrew Lawson   +6 more
openalex   +2 more sources

More than proteins for empty stomachs: Wild meat in the BaTonga food system

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Our paper highlights the limitations of the framework used by many conservation‐focused programmes that incorporate food security objectives. This framework encourages the substitution of wild proteins with domestic proteins by promoting animal farming in communities located near conservation areas.
Muriel Figuié   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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