![]() The killing of bats with the mouth during hunting expose hunters (young men) while the preparation of bat carcasses for consumption also put women, (mostly young and unmarried) at risk. Different practices and behaviours expose the mostly uneducated, young, single men and women to the risk of Ebola infection depending on their differential level of intervention in the human-bat interaction and value chain linking hunters, sellers and customers. The findings suggests that more urban men than villagers and hunters consume bat meat. ![]() ![]() The interviews were tape recorded, transcribed verbatim and inductive analysis was performed on the data. We conducted 30 ethnographic interviews with a sample of purposively selected men and women involved in the bat meat trade. It focuses on the myriad cultural beliefs, gendered patterns of activity and institutional arrangements in which the bat meat production chain is embedded. This paper examines perceptions of risk involved in the hunting, handling, processing and consumption of bat meat in the Mount Cameroon region of Southwest Cameroon. Local people’s interaction with bats render them vulnerable to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
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