Bush meat trade is major Ebola risk to Scotland
SCOTLAND’S top microbiologist has warned that the secret trade in bush meat poses the biggest risk of the deadly Ebola virus coming into the country.
Professor Hugh Pennington said people importing monkey and fruit bat meat was a more likely way for the disease to come here than via an infected airline passenger.
The emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen said much of the meat ended up being sold “under the counter” in...