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Zoonotic disease risk and the bushmeat trade: assessing awareness among hunters and traders in Sierra Leone.
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- Illegal urban wild meat supply chain characterization: A case study on zoonosis in Lusaka, Zambia.PloS one · 2026Article
- Co-designing zoonotic diseases prevention practices when people depend on wild meat.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Snaring and wildlife wastage in Africa: drivers, scale, impacts, and paths to sustainability.Bioscience · 2025Review
- An experimental game to assess hunter's participation in zoonotic diseases surveillance.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface.PloS one · 2024Article
- A systematic mapping review of links between handling wild meat and zoonotic diseases.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Assessment on Bat-Borne Zoonotic Diseases Among the People of Moyamba District, Sierra Leone.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2023Article
- Risk assessment and preventive health behaviours toward COVID-19 amongst bushmeat handlers in Nigerian wildlife markets: Drivers and One Health challenge.Acta tropica · 2022Article
- Continued availability and sale of pangolins in a major urban bushmeat market in Cameroon despite national bans and the COVID-19 outbreak.African journal of ecology · 2022Article
- Zootherapy as a potential pathway for zoonotic spillover: a mixed-methods study of the use of animal products in medicinal and cultural practices in Nigeria.One health outlook · 2022Article
- Risk perceptions and behaviors of actors in the wild animal value chain in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.PloS one · 2022Article
- Bushmeat, wet markets, and the risks of pandemics: Exploring the nexus through systematic review of scientific disclosures.Environmental science & policy · 2021Review
- An Ethnographic Approach to Characterizing Potential Pathways of Zoonotic Disease Transmission from Wild Meat in Guyana.EcoHealth · 2020Article
- Effects of Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak on Bush Meat Enterprise and Environmental Health Risk Behavior Among Households in South-East Nigeria.The journal of primary prevention · 2020Article
- Bushmeat hunting and trade in Myanmar's central teak forests: Threats to biodiversity and human livelihoods.Global ecology and conservation · 2020Article
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- Infectious Diseases and Meat Production.Environmental & resource economics · 2020Article
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Abstract
The bushmeat industry has been a topic of increasing importance among both conservationists and public health officials for its influence on zoonotic disease transmission and animal conservation. While the association between infectious diseases and the bushmeat trade is well established in the research community, risk perception among bushmeat hunters and traders has not been well characterized. I conducted surveys of 123 bushmeat hunters and traders in rural Sierra Leone to investigate hunting practices and awareness of zoonotic disease risk associated with the bushmeat trade. Twenty-four percent of bushmeat hunters and traders reported knowledge of disease transmission from animals to humans. Formal education did not significantly affect awareness of zoonotic disease transmission. Individuals who engaged exclusively in preparation and trading of bushmeat were more likely to accidentally cut themselves compared to those who primarily engaged in bushmeat hunting (P < 0.001). In addition, women involved in the bushmeat trade were at greater risk of exposing themselves to potential zoonotic pathogens through accidental self-cutting compared to men (P < 0.01). This study collected preliminary information on risk perception among bushmeat hunters that could guide the creation of a future public health-based education program to minimize zoonotic disease transmission risk among vulnerable communities.
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