Don’t Eat Like an African
The problem is not only that many Africans don’t have enough to eat, it’s that they’re very fond of bush meat, which is the wild game of Africa. The problem is that this includes monkey meat, which is being illegally imported into the UK?and it often carries the lethal Ebola virus along with it. Last year, smuggled bush meat was implicated in 25,000 airport seizures in the UK, a 62% increase since 2004. Imagine the horror of an Ebola plague–in London! And if one started in London, it?s inevitable that, like SARS, it would eventually spread to this continent. This is more important than ever, since new research shows that one of the ways that HIV jumped from chimps to humans was through eating bush meat.
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