ReviewHeliyon2021
No need to beat around the bushmeat-The role of wildlife trade and conservation initiatives in the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
Review in Heliyon, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review of health risk assessment in Africa's bushmeat trade: Are there any risks assessed?PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Pooled it
- Understanding zoonotic pathogens and risk factors from wildlife in Southeast Asia: a systematic literature review.The veterinary quarterly · 2025Pooled it
- Wildlife Trade and Genetic Basis of Disease Susceptibility: A Review.International journal of immunogenetics · 2026Review
- First Isolation and Genomic Characterization of BVDV-1c in Przewalski's Gazelle (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
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- First molecular detection of Cytauxzoon felis and Babesia sp. in ticks collected from wildlife in Atwemonom bushmeat market of Ghana and their potential veterinary health implications.Veterinary research communications · 2026Article
- Occupational Exposure and Economic Inequity Along a Game Meat Trade Network in Cross River State, Nigeria.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Illegal urban wild meat supply chain characterization: A case study on zoonosis in Lusaka, Zambia.PloS one · 2026Article
- Challenges in understanding and communicating the risk of zoonotic disease spillover from wild animal meat.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Privacy, Exploitation and Global Disease Surveillance: Can We Justly Prevent the Next Pandemic?Public health ethics · 2025Article
- Zoonotic disease risk at traditional food markets.Journal of virology · 2025Review
- Wildlife Pathogens and Zoonotic Disease Risk Assessment in Vietnam: A Wildlife Trade Hotspot.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Review
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- Assessing the microbial diversity and proximate composition of smoked-fermented bushmeat from four different bushmeat samples.Biotechnologia · 2024Article
- Natural History of Nonhuman Primates After Oral Exposure to Ebola Virus Variant Makona.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2023Article
- "Wild birds are our gold": What livelihood implications does it hold for local communities in Chemba district, Tanzania?Heliyon · 2023Article
- Wildlife Consumption, Health, and Zoonotic Disease in China After the Emergence of COVID-19.EcoHealth · 2023Article
- Is biomedical research demand driving a monkey business?One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Related Coronaviruses Circulating in Sunda pangolins (Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
Wildlife species constitute a vast and uncharted reservoir of zoonotic pathogens that can pose a severe threat to global human health. Zoonoses have become increasingly impactful over the past decades, and the expanding trade in wildlife is unarguably among the most significant risk factors for their emergence. Despite several warnings from the academic community about the spillover risks associated with wildlife trade, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic underlines that current policies on the wildlife industry are deficient. Conservation initiatives, rather than practices that attempt to eradicate zoonotic pathogens or the wild species that harbour them, could play a vital role in preventing the emergence of life-threatening zoonoses. This review explores how wildlife conservation initiatives could effectively reduce the risk of new zoonotic diseases emerging from the wildlife trade by integrating existing literature on zoonotic diseases and risk factors associated with wildlife trade. Conservation should mainly aim at reducing human-wildlife interactions in the wildlife trade by protecting wildlife habitats and providing local communities with alternative protein sources. In addition, conservation should focus on regulating the legal wildlife trade and education about disease transfer and safer hunting and butchering methods. By uniting efforts for wildlife protection and universal concern for preventing zoonotic epidemics, conservation initiatives have the potential to safeguard both biodiversity, animal welfare, and global human health security.
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