Incentives for Bushmeat Consumption and Importation among West African Immigrants, Minnesota, USA

Abstract

The knowledge, attitudes, and practices surrounding bushmeat consumption and importation in the United States are not well described. Focus groups of West African persons living in Minnesota, USA, found that perceived risks are low and unlikely to deter consumers. Incentives for importation and consumption were multifactorial in this community.

Keywords

• Global health
• animals, wild
• emigrants, immigrants, zoonoses, public health, West Africa, Liberia, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Minnesota, travel medicine, hemorrhagic fever, Ebola, f
• wild animals
• emigrants
• immigrants