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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rodney Muhumuza

As Ebola scourges Congo, experts warn of link to the consumption of 'wild meat'

Ebola Wild Meat - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The vendors of wild meat at the sprawling Masina Market in the Congolese capital don’t always display their goods openly. Customers must ask for whatever they're looking for, whether it is a giant swamp rodent or the severed parts of an antelope.

Others occasionally sell in the open, like the women who preside over impossibly large baskets of squirming caterpillars at the market in Kinshasa.

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