Exposure to Nonhuman Primates in Rural Cameroon
Open Access
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (12), 2094-2099
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1012.040062
Abstract
A high percentage of rural villagers are exposed to blood of nonhuman primates and risk acquiring infectious diseases.Keywords
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