Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Research
Exposure to Nonhuman Primates in Rural Cameroon
Nathan D. Wolfe*
, A. Tassy Prosser*, Jean K. Carr†, Ubald Tamoufe‡, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole‡§, J. Ndongo Torimiro‡, Matthew LeBreton‡, Francine E. McCutchan†, Deborah L. Birx¶, and Donald S. Burke*
, A. Tassy Prosser*, Jean K. Carr†, Ubald Tamoufe‡, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole‡§, J. Ndongo Torimiro‡, Matthew LeBreton‡, Francine E. McCutchan†, Deborah L. Birx¶, and Donald S. Burke*Table 2
Frequency of persons in 17 Cameroonian villages reporting direct contact with nonhuman primate body fluids
| Village location | Persons reporting direct nonhuman primate body fluid contact |
|
|---|---|---|
| Scratch or bite, n (%) | Injury during hunting or butchering, n (%) | |
| Savanna (N = 364) | 0 (0) | 2 (0.55) |
| Gallery forest (N = 564) | 8 (1.42) | 7 (1.24) |
| Lowland forest (N = 3,043) | 97 (3.19) | 57 (1.87) |
| Overall (N = 3,971) | 105 (2.64) | 66 (1.67) |
