The question, of course, has always been how did Dugas get it?
Somewhere along the line, some African had sex with a chimpanzee...
Read the article. The supposition is that an African hunted a chimpanzee around 1908, and became infected.
Somewhere along the line, some African had sex with a chimpanzee...
Or ate raw chimp or got bitten by one or cut himself while slaughtering one or sat in the front row of a monkey knife fight or ...
Read the article and that way you won’t end up saying something dumb
Probably through eating a chimpanzee.
That was the theory commonly offered back in the 1980s, but this indicates it was otherwise. Of course who would really know?
Or just ate the monkey’s brain raw...
You do realize that eating monkeys and apes does exist, it’s called “Bushmeat”