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  • 7 - Wild Meat and Zoonotic Diseases

  • Julia E. Fa, Stephan M. Funk, Robert Nasi
  • Book:
    Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics
    Published online:
    25 August 2022
    Print publication:
    01 September 2022, pp 226-265
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  • Summary

    Many diseases that affect humans are directly or indirectly connected to wild and domestic meat and to wildlife in general. All have different impacts ranging from mild to lethal. In this chapter we concentrate on those emerging zoonotic diseases which are directly linked to wild meat and which have the most serious impact on humans (mainly viral diseases). The chapter first reviews re-emerging zoonotic diseases, such as plague and yellow fever, and then describes zoonotic emerging diseases, including Ebola, SARS and the pandemic COVID-19. Our intention here is to catalogue and explain in some detail the most important zoonotic diseases. We continue by highlighting the risk factors likely to cause the emergence of such diseases, including wild meat hunting and trade and environmental changes. We end by proposing solutions.