Cishe izingxenye ezimbili kwezintathu zamagciwane eminenke aziwayo okungenani angama-36 nawo angathelela abantu.
Iminenke emikhulu yase-Afrika efinyelela kumasentimitha angu-20 ubude ithola ukukhula njengezilwane ezifuywayo eYurophu, kodwa ososayensi baseSwitzerland baxwayisa ngokuyizalanisa, kubika i-DPA.
Izilwane zingaba yingozi kubantu, isibonelo ngokuthwala izimuncagazi zamaphaphu kumagundane. Lokhu kungabangela i-meningitis kubantu, kubika ithimba lososayensi abavela eNyuvesi yaseLausanne ekushicilelweni kujenali yesayensi i-Parasites & Vectors.
Cishe izingxenye ezimbili kwezintathu zamagciwane eminenke aziwayo okungenani angama-36 nawo angathelela abantu. Phakathi kwezinhlobo ezidumile zama-terrariums kukhona iminenke emikhulu yase-Afrika yohlobo lwe-Lissachatina fulica kanye ne-Achatina achatina.
“Izinkundla zokuxhumana zigcwele izithombe zabantu abathinta isilwane esikhumbeni sabo noma emlonyeni,” kusho umcwaningi uCleo Bertelsmeier, ocashunwe esitatimendeni senyuvesi.
Ufundisa e-Institute of Ecology and Evolution e-Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Abantu bakholelwa ukuthi i-snail slime ilungele isikhumba. Nokho, lokhu kunengozi yokudlulisela amagciwane.
U-Bertelsmeier nozakwabo bahlaziye izithombe ezinkundleni zokuxhumana ukuze babone ukuthi iminenke emikhulu isakazeke kangakanani njengezilwane ezifuywayo.
Abantu abaningi abazazi izingozi “abazichaya bona noma izingane zabo kuzo lapho bebamba iminenke, ngokwesibonelo lapho beyibeka ebusweni,” kusho omunye umbhali uJerome Gippe.
Abacwaningi baxwayisa ngokuthi uma ukuhweba ngezilwane ezifuywayo kukhula, “kuzovula amathuba engeziwe okwethulwa nokusakazeka kwamagciwane ayingozi kubantu nakwezinye izilwane.”
Iminenke yase-Afrika iyaminza futhi izala ngokushesha. I-International Union for Conservation of Nature izifake ohlwini lwayo lwezinhlobo eziyingozi ezihlaselayo futhi izichaza njengezinambuzane, kukhumbuza i-DPA.
