DETROIT — U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers at Detroit Metro Airport seized potentially disease-ridden wild animal meat twice in one week last month.

Officials said on the first occasion, agents found 11 pounds of rodent meat from the west African country of Togo when they examined a passenger’s baggage. Days later, in the second incident, they found 52 pounds of primate meat declared as antelope in the baggage of a traveler from the central African nation of Gabon, according to authorities.

Meat from such wild animals is known as bushmeat. Customs and Border Protection officials said bushmeat, which usually comes from non-human primates and cane rats in certain regions of the world. They said it is considered a delicacy in parts of Africa and often consumed raw or sub

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