Limited knowledge of health risks along the illegal wild meat value chain in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area (NMA)

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationSmithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen Environmental Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationWildlife Research and Training Institute, Kenyaen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Nairobien
cg.contributor.affiliationInstitute for Mediterranean Studiesen
cg.contributor.affiliationAfrican Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseasesen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeiten
cg.contributor.donorFederal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germanyen
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierSherril Phyllis Masudi: 0009-0003-6319-1211
cg.creator.identifierElizabeth Cook: 0000-0001-6081-8363
cg.creator.identifierLian Thomas: 0000-0001-8447-1210
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316596en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1932-6203en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalPLOS ONEen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTSen
cg.subject.ilriBUSHMEATen
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SAFETYen
cg.subject.ilriHUMAN HEALTHen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingen
cg.volume20en
dc.contributor.authorMasudi, Sherril P.en
dc.contributor.authorHassell, J.en
dc.contributor.authorCook, Elizabeth A.J.en
dc.contributor.authorHooft, P. vanen
dc.contributor.authorLangevelde, F. vanen
dc.contributor.authorBuij, R.en
dc.contributor.authorOtiende, M.Y.en
dc.contributor.authorOchieng, J.W.en
dc.contributor.authorSantangeli, A.en
dc.contributor.authorHappi, A.en
dc.contributor.authorAkpan, S.N.en
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Lian F.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-27T12:24:02Zen
dc.date.available2025-03-27T12:24:02Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173890
dc.titleLimited knowledge of health risks along the illegal wild meat value chain in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area (NMA)en
dcterms.abstractConsumption of and trade in wild meat could result in infectious pathogen spillover into human populations. Such spillovers could propagate into sustained outbreaks in major cities where human aggregations potentially catalyze their spread. A better understanding of how urban wild meat value chains operate could assist in mitigating spillover events. We used key informant interviews and literature review to understand the structure and operations, actors, their practices, and health risk perceptions along a wild meat value chain supplying a rapidly urbanizing city in Africa, the Nairobi Metropolitan Area (NMA). The value chain operates via three main nodes: harvester, trader, and consumer nodes. We found wild meat to be harvested from peri-urban areas of the NMA, consumed or sold locally, or supplied to distant urban markets. Actors reported increased participation along the value chain during the dry season, and over the Christmas period. The value chain operated informally, creating a ‘rules in use’ framework focusing on sanction avoidance, while ignoring food safety concerns. Consequently, respondents reported slaughtering wild animals on the bare ground, handling wild meat with unwashed hands and uncleaned utensils. No value chain actors reported wearing personal protective equipment when handling wild meat. At the distant markets’ trader node where wild meat was sold as livestock meat, meat vendors engaged in similar unsafe practices. Actors had limited awareness of the specific health risks from wild meat. We speculate that the observed limited health risk awareness, and sanction avoidance attempts promotes unsafe practices during exploitation of wild animals for food, income and for medicinal purposes. Multisectoral efforts at the conservation and public health nexus, as well as community education on the potential health risks from wild meat are key in reducing potential spillovers.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2025-03-26
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMasudi, S.P., Hassell, J., Cook, E.A.J., Hooft, P. van, Langevelde, F. van, Buij, R., Otiende, M.Y., Ochieng, J.W., Santangeli, A., Happi, A., Akpan, S.N. and Thomas, L.F. 2025. Limited knowledge of health risks along the illegal wild meat value chain in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area (NMA). PLOS ONE 20(3): e0316596.en
dcterms.extente0316596en
dcterms.issued2025-03-26
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC0-1.0
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dcterms.subjectanimal productsen
dcterms.subjectbushmeaten
dcterms.subjectfood safetyen
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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