Risk assessment and preventive health behaviours toward COVID-19 amongst bushmeat handlers in Nigerian wildlife markets: Drivers and One Health challenge

Alhaji, Nma Bida; Odetokun, Ismail A.; Lawan, Mohammed Kabiru; Adeiza, Abdulrahman Musa; Nafarnda, Wesley Daniel; Salihu, Mohammed Jibrin

doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106621

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“…The prevention of pandemics is a universal public good that benefits all nations. 85 Nevertheless, because of the belief that nations may gain without contributing, it frequently suffers from underinvestment. 86 Low investment is also a result of the advantages of prevention being unseen and unmeasured, the links between pandemic drivers and income producing, and the preference for response over prevention.…”

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Global Mapping and Visualization Analysis of One Health Knowledge in the COVID-19 Context

Zyoud

2024

Environ�Health�Insights

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Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the health, social, and economic systems, triggering lasting damage and exposing the complexity of the problem beyond just being a health emergency. This crisis has highlighted the need for a comprehensive and collaborative strategy to successfully counter infectious diseases and other global challenges. With the COVID-19 pandemic pushing One Health to the forefront of global health and sustainable development agendas, this concept has emerged as a potential approach for addressing these challenges. In the context of COVID-19, this study investigates global knowledge about One Health by examining its state, significant contributions, and future directions. It seeks to offer an integrated framework of insights guiding the development of well-informed decisions. A comprehensive search using the Scopus database was conducted, employing specific terms related to One Health and COVID-19. VOSviewer 1.6.19 software was used to generate network visualization maps. Countries’ research output was adjusted based on their gross domestic product (GDP) and population size. The study identified a total of 527 publications. The United States led with 134 documents (25.4%), but India topped the adjusted ranking. One Health journal stood as the most common outlet for disseminating knowledge (49 documents; 9.3%), while Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States emerged as the most prolific institution (13 documents; 2.5%). Key topics were related to the virus transmission mechanisms, climate change impacts, antimicrobial resistance, ecosystem health, preparedness, collaboration, community engagement, and developing of efficient surveillance systems. The study emphasizes how critical it is to capitalize on the present momentum of COVID-19 to advance One Health concepts. Integrating social and environmental sciences, and a variety of professions for better interaction and collaboration is crucial. Additionally, increased funding for developing countries, and legislative empowerment are vital to advance One Health and boost disease prevention.

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“… 86 Low investment is also a result of the advantages of prevention being unseen and unmeasured, the links between pandemic drivers and income producing, and the preference for response over prevention. 85 …”

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Global Mapping and Visualization Analysis of One Health Knowledge in the COVID-19 Context

Zyoud

2024

Environ�Health�Insights

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“…However, a careful examination of the provision of paragraph 30 reveals that the modalities to be observed in privately caring for a COVID-19 patient are in reference to a private arrangement made by a person who is infected with COVID-19. 41 Furthermore, a plain and ordinary interpretation of the COVID-19 regulation for 2021 and 2020 reveals that it did not expressly mention private health care providers (private hospitals) as one of the medical bodies responsible for caring for COVID-19 patients. In this regard, there are no provisions, guidelines, or modalities in the COVID-19 Regulations that permit a private health care provider to care for a COVID-19 patient.…”

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The Legal Rights and Challenges of COVID-19 Patients Accessing Private Healthcare in Nigeria

Aidonojie

Okuonghae²,

Ukhurebor

2022

BESTUUR

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<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare providers all over the world. Nigeria has also had its fair share of the health crisis caused by COVID-19. Despite the apparent shortcomings of public healthcare in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, the participation of private healthcare providers in caring for COVID-19 patients in Nigeria has been limited by legal and regulatory constraints. This study employs a hybrid research method. The study found insufficient medical facilities and care for COVID-19 patients in government-owned isolation centers. It was concluded and recommended that there is a need to whittle down the laws and regulations limiting private health providers from caring for COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, there is a need to set some ethics and guidelines for private healthcare providers who intend to care for COVID-19 patients.</p>

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“…Therefore, despite multiple disease outbreaks globally and well-documented zoonotic diseases associated with bushmeat, perceived health risks are typically low among bushmeat handlers [ 13 ]. In Sierra Leone [ 8 ], Ghana [ 11 ], Nigeria [ 20 , 21 ], Laos [ 7 , 22 ], the Democratic Republic of the Congo [ 23 ], and Cameroon [ 6 ], risk perception related to zoonoses has been found to be low among highly exposed groups like hunters and vendors. Trefon [ 12 ] notes that in Central Africa, a prevailing belief that life trajectories are predetermined, rooted in and reinforced by Christianity, can lead individuals to perceive sickness or death as the will of the supernatural and therefore to run the risk of infection.…”

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“…This insight likely explains why traders rarely deploy strategies to mitigate zoonotic disease risk, for example by using personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, face masks, or aprons. Alhaji et al [ 21 ] find market vendors’ use of preventive health behaviours including washing or sanitising hands after touching wildlife (22.1%) and using PPE (15.8%) were low, but not non-existent. According to Ozioko et al [ 20 ], traders in Southeast Nigeria are for the most part unconcerned about bushmeat-associated zoonoses and are unlikely to take proper precautions.…”

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Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface

Jenkins,

Lawundeh,

Hanson

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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‘Bushmeat’ markets are often portrayed as chaotic spaces where exotic wild animals are sold. They are hypothesized to be important sites for zoonotic disease transmission, given the prolonged and intense nature of the cross-species encounters that occur within them. Whilst such markets have received some attention from researchers, rich qualitative descriptions of everyday practices in these markets are rare. Depictions of wild animal markets as sites for potential viral amplification often rely on exoticizing assumptions and narratives rather than actual evidence, and in some cases are based more on ideology than on science. We provide an in-depth ethnographic account of two bushmeat markets in Bo, Sierra Leone. Our analysis goes beyond common assumptions that zoonotic risk is located solely in the knowledge and behaviours of traders. Our account sheds light on the modes of touch, closeness and contact that shape this hypothesised zoonotic interface, outlining the possible risks to different people who use and spend time in the market. We found that inadequate infrastructure and sanitation facilities created risks of zoonotic disease transmission for diverse actors including traders, customers, children, and the wider public. Butchering and trading practices frequently resulted in people directly and indirectly encountering animal fluids. We also discuss how public health management of these markets focused on individual behaviours rather than on improving conditions. Urgent sanitary reform and infrastructure upgrades in these sites that support the economic needs of traders could encourage voluntary compliance with biosafety measures amongst traders seeking to balance responsibilities to family and public health. Our study reveals the value of moving beyond exoticized narratives about bushmeat markets to yield situated insights for reducing risk at this interface.

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Risk assessment and preventive health behaviours toward COVID-19 amongst bushmeat handlers in Nigerian wildlife markets: Drivers and One Health challenge

Cited by 10 publications

References 55 publications

Global Mapping and Visualization Analysis of One Health Knowledge in the COVID-19 Context

Global Mapping and Visualization Analysis of One Health Knowledge in the COVID-19 Context

The Legal Rights and Challenges of COVID-19 Patients Accessing Private Healthcare in Nigeria

Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface

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