Contact with monkeys and apes puts populations at risk

Thursday, December 27, 2018 - 16:20 in Health & Medicine

Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans from nonhuman primates. Now, researchers have carried out an extensive social sciences evaluation of how populations in Cameroon interact with nonhuman primates, pointing toward behaviors that could put people at risk of infection with new diseases.

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