COOKING WILL NOT KILL BACTERIA IN BUSHMEATA wakeup call to consumers of illegal bushmeatMany of us believe we can kill the bacteria in our food, especially meat, by simply cooking. But University of Zambia Professor of Veterinary Public Health and Wildlife Medicine, Dr. Musso Munyeme, has revealed that there are a number of survivalist bacterial pathogens that are very resistant even to extreme temperatures. Dr. Munyeme disclosed this during a Facebook Live Chat on the Link Between Zoonotic Diseases and Illegal Bushmeat hosted by Wildlife Crime Prevention. He explained that these survivalistbacterial species usually form spores which are able to survive freezing or boiling temperatures, waiting for the right conditions to bloom into deadly bacteria.One such spore-forming bacterium that Dr. Munyeme highlighted is anthrax. He said, “The bacterium that causesanthrax forms spores when exposed to air and these spores are extremely resistant to environmental conditions and have been shown to survive in the soil for over 60 years.” For example, it was discovered that an outbreak of anthrax in Siberia, Russia in 2016, which sickened at least 13 people and killed over 2,000 reindeer (a species of […]
COOKING WILL NOT KILL BACTERIA IN BUSHMEAT
