crainsnewyork.com - By Gale Scott - Monkey meat and other wildlife parts confiscated at a city airport are seen as growing health hazards to people. Among the infections found so far: Ebola and an HIV cousin called Simian Foamy Virus. Sometimes it's just not a proper wedding without a taste of monkey stew. Every meat-eating society has its ideas about what's delicious and what's disgusting. To each his own. But a New York City-based pilot study of illegally imported “bushmeat,” a term for wild animals hunted in Africa for food, is raising new concerns about the health hazards posed to people who eat wild creatures ranging from bats to monkeys and other primates.

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