What links a town in Germany to an African epidemic?


This was a story I missed in the actual magazine:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7073

But the latest is, it’ s OK to eat them, just make sure they’re cooked…!

People who eat cooked monkey meat are not necessarily at risk, since heat destroys the virus. But those who hunt and butcher the animals and handle the raw meat run a high risk of infection if the animal was sick.

(since March 21st: 266 cases, 244 deaths and counting…)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/health/26viru.html