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Originally Posted by SV650rules
The reason we have had successful vaccines for some viruses like smallpox is that they do not mutate, so it is possible to almost wipe them out. It is a competitive advantage to a virus to become more transmissible and less deadly, it maximizes the amount of your virus DNA that gets spread around. Ebola also lives in bats ( a surprising amount of diseases come from bats ) and has mutated to jump the species gap, the Africans have a habit of eating bat meat - and that is the reason Ebola spread to humans... Chinese also eat and live cheek by jowl with some stranger and exotic creatures - which is probably why a lot of diseases originate from there.
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humans have been eating whatever they can catch since,, well forever. different regions eat different things and have been eating these things for ever. if it were the fault of a species causing all these viruses etc.etc they would have surfaced a long long time ago. its easy to tell the public that "it came from bats" than to tell them in came out of a lab at which point blame would start.