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*
Author affiliations: *Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; †Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, USA; ‡Johns Hopkins Cameroon Program, Yaoundé, Cameroon; §Army Health Research Center (CRESAR), Yaoundé, Cameroon; and; ¶Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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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) |
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