title: Public health considerations in human consumption of wild game.
abstract: The role of a few microorganisms, like Brucella and Mycobacterium and certain parasites of food animals, in causing human disease has been recognized for a hundred years. By the 1990s, other microorganisms derived from food animals were recognized as contributing to human illness. Handling and/or consumption of wild game may result in human exposure to novel microorganisms; these unrecognized or unknown agents or diseases in wild species may cross into humans and cause "new" diseases with which we are not familiar.
authors.affiliation: USDA Fellow, Center for the Integrated Study of Food, Animal and Plant Systems at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama 36083, USA. asahl@tusk.edu
authors.forename: Alwynelle S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Ahl
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nganwa
authors.forename: Saul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D005511:Food Handling / Q000379:methods; D005516:Food Microbiology; D016266:Food Parasitology; D006801:Humans; D008460:Meat / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000592:standards*; D011634:Public Health; D015047:Zoonoses