bushmeat

Counter-example: China, or any society that has access to a diverse hunting ground for 'game' or 'bushmeat'.

And why they don't have refrigerators, and why they're eating bushmeat in the first place?

Lots of bushmeat gets smuggled into Europe.

Having said that, the bushmeat issue has gone beyond subsistence farming, there is a systematic plundering of Gorilla families going on (most probably with the connivance of government forces) where the gorilla mothers are taken for bushmeat and the young ones are taken to become pets.

> Lots of bushmeat gets smuggled into Europe.

The point is not "ducks are a specific risk"; the point is "Americans eat plenty of what we'd call 'bushmeat' in the Congo".

However, the diversity of Africa’s “bushmeat” and the economic conditions in some areas seem to increase the chances of a zoonotic disease spreading to humans.

Many African cultures have a tradition of eating “bushmeat” (ie.

Larger protein sources like beef, pork, or bushmeat is relatively more expensive, however, unless you opt for poor quality processing like cheap "corned beef" made from offal.

So it was "entrenched", or, rather, endemic in we guess fruit bats, the index case was a child in a household where some "bushmeat" was butchered, but not, until now, in human populations.

The point is not "ducks are a specific risk"; the point is "Americans eat plenty of what we'd call 'bushmeat' in the Congo".

However, the diversity of Africa’s “bushmeat” and the economic conditions in some areas seem to increase the chances of a zoonotic disease spreading to humans.

Many African cultures have a tradition of eating “bushmeat” (ie.

Larger protein sources like beef, pork, or bushmeat is relatively more expensive, however, unless you opt for poor quality processing like cheap "corned beef" made from offal.