Aug. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. border officials in Michigan stumbled on multiple discoveries of likely disease-ridden African bushmeat within a week's time.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found two different passengers twice within a week in late July at Michigan's Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Both the unidentified were from Togo and Gabon, respectively.
"These recent bushmeat interceptions are significant in bringing attention to the illegal importation of bushmeat through our ports of entry," Detroit Metropolitan's Port Director Fadia Pastilong said in a statement.
Bushmeat refers to wild animals often in the form of bats, non-human primates and cane rats from certain regions that, according to U.S. health officials, pose "significant communicable disease risk."
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