Bushmeat and human health: Assessing the Evidence in tropical and sub-tropical forests

• DOI: 10.15451/ec2017-04-6.3-1-45
• Publication Date: 2017-04-20T22:16:36Z
• Authors: Nathalie Van Vliet; Jessica Moreno; Juanita Gomez; Wen Zhou; John Emmanuel Fa; Christopher Golden; Romulo Romeu Nobr...; Robert Nasi
• Keywords: Bushmeat; Tropical forest; Tropical disease; Neglected Tropical Diseases; Tropical climate; Tropical rain forest

The importance of bushmeat as source food and medicine for forest peoples calls an appropriate benefit/risk analysis in terms human health. In this systematic review, we compiled information on the linkages between health, with a particular focus nutritional content, zoo-therapeutic uses zoonotic pool species tropical sub-tropical regions. Despite scarcity data content most common species, available studies demonstrate that is important fats, micro macro-nutrients has diversity medicinal uses. However, may have detrimental health impacts where hunting, transportation, handling cooking practices do not follow safety practices. There evidence some carcasses be contaminated by toxic metals or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Moreover, several pathogens carried are found to potentially transmissible humans through consumption exposure body fluids feces. We stress need more in-depth complex links development innovative handling, conservation should help reduce negative