INteresting quote that is pretty presumptious.
“The dotted line shows countries home to the Pteropodidae family of fruit bats who are the natural hosts of the disease.”
Suspected, yes. Not known.
Interestingly , there no one has addressed the sanitary conditions of the most backwards places in the equatorial regions.
Where these diseases originated are where:
1) the people are the most backwards, illiterate and “closest to the earth” on the planet.
2) People are eating their “government inspected grade A” bush meat, AND the fruit bat.....
3) Sanitary conditions in these areas are non existent. People shit and piss where they drink, have their baths and wash their clothes. These are the areas where they are still first generation spear chuckers and zero civilization has not found its way there excepting to bring the poor some aid.
Aid alone will not solve their problems. Yup, just throwing money at it will not solve the root lest we say “containment”.
Worst part? You and I could go and give them all the root sanitary conditions and they would pull them a part and repurpose or sell the improvements. “if the bush is good enough for the chief....”
and the whiteman’s way..... ain’t our way still prevail.
AND its bigger than that.
The whole turd world and equatorial regions will be decimated, with the shit flowing out of the diaper into the developed world.
Hang on to your socks!