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[hanscott]

Probably more like, "Thanks bush meat connoisseurs."

Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe talks about the quandary for desperately poor people who eek out a living by supplying city people with bush meat in Africa in this 10 minute TED Talk. It's particularly interesting what they learned about the origin of HIV(AIDS).

https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_wolfe_the_jungle_search_for_viruses/transcript?language=en

IMO, one worst-case nightmare scenario would be if a prion disease like Mad Cow mutated like viral diseases and started jumping into the human species at a significantly higher than normal rate.