Monkey Meat Is A Major Source Of Deadly Infections

Research has shown that primates, which make up just 0.5 per cent of the animals on the planet, actually seed 20 per cent of all infectious human viruses.
The main cause of the problem appears to originate from West Africa where humans eat the meat of infected chimpanzees.
Such bush meat is a major source of both nourishment and deadly infection.
While human hunters sell chimp carcasses at market, chimpanzees have also been known to grab children from the villages, kill and eat them – which can move human viruses back to the monkey population.
Villagers will butcher chimps in the open.
This provides microbes with the opportunity to jump back and forth between people and monkeys.