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Wildlife Products Smuggled Into U.S. Pose Potential Human Health Risk, Study Suggests
"In a new study published on Tuesday in the journal PLoS One, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the EcoHealth Alliance, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other institutions reported on the first effort to identify new viruses in wildlife products that had been smuggled illegally into the U.S.," TIME's "Ecocentric" blog reports (Walsh, 1/11). According to BBC News, retroviruses and herpesviruses were identified in meats confiscated at U.S. airports, "some of them isolated from remains of endangered monkey species," and the "authors say better surveillance measures are needed to ensure this trade does not result in the emergence of new disease outbreaks in humans" (1/11).
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