LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Wednesday that agriculture specialists encountered potentially disease-ridden bushmeat twice within a week period in late July at Detroit Metro Airport.

Bushmeat refers to meat from wild animals such as bats, non-human primates or rats from certain regions of the world that poses a significant communicable disease risk. Bushmeat is illegal to import into the United States.

The first incident involved 11 pounds of rodent meat from Togo, a country in West Africa being found in someone’s baggage. Then, just days later, 52 pounds of primate meat that had been declared as antelope was caught coming into the airport from the Central African nation of Gabon. Each of the travelers were also found to have other undecla

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