As Bushmeat Consumption Grows, Nigerian Doctors Fear Outbreaks

As Bushmeat Consumption Grows, Nigerian Doctors Fear Outbreaks

Once largely a rural phenomenon, eating everything from bats to elephants is increasingly popular in cities too.

Concerns As Nigeria's Bushmeat Consumption Grows - InsideBusiness - Business News in Nigeria

Beneath a makeshift shelter of old boards and corrugated tin, Justina Sunday piles dried corncobs into the rusting bathtub that serves as her grill. Squinting through wisps of white smoke redolent of charcoal and spice, she flips strips of meat blistering over the hot coals. Her stall, beside a busy highway leading to Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, is crowded with regulars awaiting steaks, chops and kebabs served with pap—a local porridge—and doused …