Tourists risk giving gorillas deadly diseases when they take selfies

tourist taking photo of gorilla

Don’t to find too finish

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Eco-vacationers are getting too finish to mountain gorillas, risking passing on potentially lethal human coughs and colds – and the proof is on Instagram.

A search of the social media internet site has grew to alter into up heaps of of shots of folks nearer than the suggested seven metres away from the apes.

Segment of the anxiousness is folks searching out the correct selfie to post on-line, says Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka at the Ugandan charity Conservation By intention of Public Successfully being. “Social media is making the anxiousness worse, for particular.”

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