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Abstract：
There is an urgent need for biosurveillance of unregulated African meat imports at border points of entry in destination markets. This is underscored by recent pandemics linked to exotic wildlife products. Our objective was to catalog the quantity of meat that is informally transported from Africa into and through Europe often without any veterinary or sanitary checks. We searched and included peer-reviewed studies that contained data on the intercontinental movement of unregulated meat from the African continent. This was followed by an investigation of the reported contamination of such meat. We included fifteen airport studies with limited data on this topic. The references included in this review describe the quantity of meat found at border inspection posts and the presence of pathogens. Disease-causing pathogens were found to be present, and the results are organized into bacteria, virus, and parasite categories. The species of animal meat found in this review were linked to CITES-protected species some of which are known reservoir hosts for infectious diseases. This represents a potential and unquantified human health risk to populations along the supply chain, and a loss to biodiversity in supply countries. Meat samples described in this review were primarily found opportunistically by Customs officials, indicating that any estimate of the total quantities passing undetected through border checkpoints must remain tentative, and cannot rule out the possibility that it is indeed considerably higher. We propose a template for future studies regarding African meat imports at border points of entry. The result of this review illustrates a gap in knowledge and lacunae regarding the amount of unregulated African meat imports worldwide, the pathogens it may contain, and the resulting biodiversity loss that occurs from the intercontinental movement of this meat.
摘要：
迫切需要在目的地市场的边境入境点对不受管制的非洲肉类进口进行生物监测。最近与外来野生动物产品有关的大流行强调了这一点。我们的目标是对从非洲非正式运输到欧洲的肉类数量进行分类，而无需进行任何兽医或卫生检查。我们搜索并纳入了同行评审的研究，这些研究包含有关来自非洲大陆的不受管制的肉类的洲际运动的数据。随后是对这种肉的报告污染的调查。我们纳入了15项机场研究，但有关该主题的数据有限。这篇评论中包含的参考文献描述了在边境检查站发现的肉类数量和病原体的存在。发现存在致病病原体，结果被组织成细菌，病毒,和寄生虫类别。这篇评论中发现的动物肉物种与CITES保护物种有关，其中一些是已知的传染病宿主。这对供应链上的人群构成了潜在的、不可量化的人类健康风险。以及供应国生物多样性的丧失。这次审查中描述的肉类样本主要是由海关官员投机取巧地发现的，表明对通过边境检查站未被发现的总量的任何估计必须保持暂定，并且不能排除它确实高得多的可能性。我们为未来在边境入境点进口非洲肉类的研究提出了一个模板。这项审查的结果说明了关于全球不受管制的非洲肉类进口数量的知识和空白，它可能含有的病原体，以及这种肉的洲际运动导致的生物多样性丧失。
