HUNTERS in Africa who catch monkeys and apes for food should be provided with an alternative diet to prevent new diseases from emerging, says a researcher who has shown that monkey viruses jump to people far more often than thought. “If you think of the lives lost and the billions of dollars spent on HIV/AIDS, the cost of replacing bushmeat to prevent the next pandemic seems reasonable,” says Nathan Wolfe of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Wolfe screened people from nine rural communities in Cameroon with the help of Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole’s team at the Cameroon Military Medical Centre in…
