[Zhang Fei]

[I wonder why these things SARS Ebola etc, always come out of China or Africa. India is equally as crowded, they have cow crap all over the place because the cows roam free is it please since they are holy. and yet nothing weird ever comes out of that country which is equally as crowded if not more than China. I honestly believe it’s because India is such a spiritual place. ]

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It’s probably because a huge chunk of India is vegetarian. Many of these epidemics come from bacterial or viral loads carried by animals processed for food that cross the species barrier. In Africa, some of the game animals are eaten raw, before rigor mortis sets in. In China, meat processing may lack many of the precautions* taken by meat packers stateside. I’ve yet to hear of an epidemic caused by a plant disease that infected humans.

* Even hunters stateside wear gloves and other protective clothing when dressing game animals to avoid infection by deer ticks and other creepy-crawlies that can inflict a host of maladies that start with Lyme disease and go on from there.

[proud American in Canada]

Interesting! Thank you oh, I had not considered that. :-)

[Zhang Fei]

I wonder why these things SARS Ebola etc, always come out of China or Africa. India is equally as crowded

Re population density, Africa is the least crowded of the continents. Its poverty, like China's and India's, is the product of leadership incompetence and/or corruption. China's population density is similar to Europe's.

India has a lower population density than Israel, Holland, South Korea and Taiwan. And yet its economic production per capita is 1/10 of those other countries.