Patterns of bushmeat hunting and perceptions of disease risk among central African communities
Patterns of bushmeat hunting and perceptions of disease risk among central African communities
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1469-1795.2006.00030.x
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Wolfe, N. D.
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作者：
LeBreton, M.;Prosser, A. T.;Wolfe, N. D.
非常需要确定影响狩猎、屠宰和食用野生动物肉的因素，以便更好地管理这些活动的重要社会、公共卫生和保护后果。特别是，狩猎和屠宰野生动物可能导致疾病的传播，对受影响的人及其社区造成潜在的严重后果。了解这些风险可能会导致这些活动的水平降低。为了调查这些问题，完成了3971份问卷，以研究狩猎，屠宰和食用野生动物的决定因素和对疾病风险的看法，在17个农村中非村庄。很大比例的人报告说，他们认为与肉类接触有感染疾病的风险。认为有风险的人比那些认为没有风险的人更不可能屠杀野生动物。然而，对风险的感知与狩猎和食用生肉（与屠宰相比，与生血和体液接触较少的活动）无关。这表明，一些人可能会根据感知的风险采取行动，以避免更高风险的活动。这些发现强化了中非农村的保护计划应该包括健康风险教育的概念。这有可能减少对野生动物的使用，特别是对人类健康构成特别危险的某些濒危物种（如许多非人类灵长类动物）。然而，由于野生动物的使用可能会继续下去，应该鼓励人们为了自己和社区的健康更安全地进行狩猎和屠宰。
There is a great need to determine the factors that influence the hunting, butchering and eating of bushmeat to better manage the important social, public health and conservation consequences of these activities. In particular, the hunting and butchering of wild animals can lead to the transmission of diseases that have potentially serious consequences for exposed people and their communities. Comprehension of these risks may lead to decreased levels of these activities. To investigate these issues, 3971 questionnaires were completed to examine the determinants of the hunting, butchering and eating of wild animals and perceptions of disease risk in 17 rural central African villages. A high proportion of individuals reported perceiving a risk of disease infection with bushmeat contact. Individuals who perceived risk were significantly less likely to butcher wild animals than those who perceived no risk. However, perception of risk was not associated with hunting and eating bushmeat (activities that, compared with butchering, involve less contact with raw blood and body fluids). This suggests that some individuals may act on perceived risk to avoid higher risk activity. These findings reinforce the notion that conservation programs in rural villages in central Africa should include health-risk education. This has the potential to reduce the levels of use of wild animals, particularly of certain endangered species (e.g. many non-human primates) that pose a particular risk to human health. However, as the use of wild game is likely to continue, people should be encouraged to undertake hunting and butchering more safely for their own and their community's health.