Question

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part c
how did food contribute to the early spread of ebola?

Explanation:

Identify the primary transmission vector

The consumption and preparation of bushmeat (wild animals such as fruit bats, monkeys, or forest antelopes) infected with the Ebola virus.

Explain the spillover mechanism

Handling raw meat or fluids from infected animals during hunting, butchering, and preparation allows the virus to cross the species barrier to humans.

Answer:

Food contributed to the early spread of Ebola through the hunting, butchering, and consumption of infected wild animals (known as bushmeat), such as fruit bats, non-human primates, and forest antelopes, which facilitated the initial zoonotic spillover of the virus to humans.