An ever-expanding human population and exploding demand for food, water and living space, will place animals at “unprecedented” extinction risk in the next 50 years, experts warned Wednesday. Facing the highest level of threat are more than 360 species of large mammals in Africa, Asia and South America — the most biodiverse regions of the … Read more
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against Ebola, which has wiped out tens of thousands of the wild apes in three decades. The vaccine is given orally, the developers said, which means it can be put into food bait and left out for the animals to … Read more
The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is a cluster of booth-sized shops and stalls. Under one stall, a small deer with a slit throat lies next to a porcupine in the mid-January heat. Nearby, other game, concealed in jute … Read more
A Virologist at the Ghana Veterinary Service, Dr. Joseph Adongo-Awuni has cautioned the public to place equal emphasis on the animal to human mode of transmitting the Ebola virus. “We are still at risk, the human to human control is excellent, but it is important to let the general public know of the second risk … Read more
The current scare of the Ebola virus is gradually affecting the patronage of bush meat in some parts of Accra. The low patronage follows speculations that the deadly Ebola virus may be contracted from bush meat such as chimpanzees and bats. As a result, the sale of bush meat, which used to be a booming … Read more
West Africa is being plagued by a new outbreak of Ebola — a terrifying disease that causes its victims to bleed to death from the inside out. Ebola has no cure, and the latest epidemic is spreading fast. VICE News visited Liberia, where many feel the new outbreak began, borne from the bushmeat markets of … Read more
As the peril of the spread of the Ebola Virus becomes even more apparent, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has issued out a warning to countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region to be cognizant of the growing threat of the transmission of the virus from wildlife to humans. The … Read more