In David Quammen's Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus he recounts one of the first reorded Ebola epidemics. It began when some villagers found a dead, bloated, chimpanzee and, despite it's condition, decided to cook and eat it anyway. Anyone who handled the rotten meat died, as did most of the village before the epidemic ran it course, eventually claiming over fifty victims. What you cannot help thinking is how absolutely careless and stupid those people were.
How many thousands of years have they been doing this? Recon that could be why, except for TV and cell phones, they live pretty much like they did 10,000 years ago?
This is the government culture the majority wanted here? Elections do have consequences, hope we survive this one.