Health Report - Health and Environmental Concerns as Ugandans Start to Eat Primates

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VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in English. The flow of Congolese refugees into western Uganda raising concerns not only about food security, but also risk of the Ebola virus. Eating primates is a custom, but monkeys, chimpanzees and other animals can carry deadly virus. Disease experts are calling attention to the . So are environmental groups. That is because chimpanzees are . Lily Ajarova is the director of a chimpanzee refuge Uganda. She says eating primates is not a traditional in Uganda, but it is in Central and Western . She said this is the biggest threat to their Dr. Monday Busuulwa is with the African Field Epidemiology . He says just handling the meat of infected primates spread EbolaLily Ajerova says she and her team have yet found chimpanzees being eaten in Uganda, but they seen other primates being eaten. She points out that traditional Ugandan culture, primates are protected as totem animals, animals representing a groupBut refugees from the west have their eating customs with them. Over the past year, of thousands of refugees have entered Uganda, fleeing war the Democratic Republic of Congo. Daniel Molla of the Nations World Food Program says most of these refugees in organized settlements. But he says cuts in food have increased pressure on local communities as refugees buy from the same markets as Ugandans. That means the of primates like chimpanzees could be consumed. Over the year alone, Uganda has suffered from three deadly outbreaks Ebola. The most recent outbreaks have happened in the VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presutti. (Adapted from a program broadcast 19Dec2012)

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