date:Jul 25, 2012
ample of a foodborne Ebola outbreak he gave involved 16 African boys who come across a dead chimp and proceed to eat the meat raw without knowing it is infected with the virus. In short order, 14 boys died, but Bausch says because of time and distance the threat is limited to the group
Mostly we do not see Ebola as a foodborne illness except in such special circumstances, he said.
The rodents in West Africa that carry the Lassa virus mean it also can become a foodborne disease. Everybody has