Virus hunting in Cameroon: by Nature Video

Global pandemics, like swine flu, are often caused by viruses that have jumped from animals to people. Scientists in Cameroon are working with local bush meat hunters to monitor this viral transmission. They hope that their work will help us predict and prevent outbreaks like swine flu in the future. Read more here: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091209/full/462717a.html

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[agapitoflores001]

Virus are difficult to battle with. Their structure makes it easy for them to survive.

[PouncingAnt]

almost all cooks deal with processed meat, and dont come into nearly as much contact with blood.

In less developed countries where machine techniques are not available, and local economies are highly important, of course there will be more butchers. And this video stated it was looking at populations with high protein intake! Thus my comment on more butchers

[ambeche]

what about cooks.......and others indirectly involved?! i will say this....u guessed wrongly about the amount of meat intake by Westerners.... so what are insinuating about the butchers population in developing countries?.........And where do u think the influenza virus came from?

[PouncingAnt]

The point is that the people with the most exposure to meat are the butchers, who make up less of a proportion of the population in highly developed countries.

There is no excuse for you to throw names like ignorant around. I was just being informative.

[ambeche]

if ure European then u have to inform yourself about whats happening before u get the steak on your plate or in the shops........check out the annual consumption of meat in your country. some of u are so ignorant about how things u get in your shops come about.

[PouncingAnt]

Probably not, but there are likely to be a smaller proportion of the population of Europe involved directly in butchery, where most blood is produced. I'd guess the % of the population of Europe who have ever skinned an animal is monumentally small.

Additionally, I'm guessing the main food intake of the av. European isn't meat, unlike the small populations this video was talking about.

[ambeche]

Preparing meat and eating meat any where in the world is a bloody affair! so excuse me!........Are animals slaughtered in Europe without blood???

[omiolo]

I never thought of blood diseases being transported in that mechanism.

Human and animal blood being mixed by means of hunting traditions.

[smittieh]

0:48. Yeahhh, let us kill all animals!

[TheRolemodel1337]

2:02 dolce&gabbane fail?