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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.[/quote]
The Guardian and Washington Post have a good article. The saliva of the bat carries the virus. They eat fruit and other animals too get it. Deforestation of the pristine virgin jungle is what caused the outbreak, also seasonal mining. So even if tomorrow you could eliminate the virus, we could soon have another patient zero.
capitalism, greed and logging and destruction of the jungle is causing this. [b]Perhaps the planet has too many people and is fighting back[/b][/quote]

This "reasoning" is so cruel because of course, it's poor people and people who are already most affected by the eradication of natural resources that are hit the hardest.  Rich people, mining companies and other industry that has obliterated the jungle aren't remotely affected by Ebola - not yet, anyway.  It's poor people who are struggling to survive that are hit first and dying horrible, awful deaths.  [/quote]

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