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Why does it seem most deadly diseases start in Africa?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:09 pm
Just wondering...
AIDS, Ebola, just to name a couple
AIDS, Ebola, just to name a couple
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Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:10 pm to theantiquetiger
Evolution.
Africa has so many uncivilized areas that are prime breeding grounds for new types of viruses/bacteria etc.
ETA: Guy goes out to the old watering hole, some new type of bacteria is floating around in there, next thing you know his entire village is infected, villages they trade with are infected, then it spreads to bigger cities and people start carrying it back to their home countries. It's pretty easy to understand.
Africa has so many uncivilized areas that are prime breeding grounds for new types of viruses/bacteria etc.
ETA: Guy goes out to the old watering hole, some new type of bacteria is floating around in there, next thing you know his entire village is infected, villages they trade with are infected, then it spreads to bigger cities and people start carrying it back to their home countries. It's pretty easy to understand.
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:11 pm to theantiquetiger
Bc aids
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:11 pm to theantiquetiger
Lack of a lot of things. Education, healthcare, infrastructure to name a few.
Did you really not know the answer to this question?
Did you really not know the answer to this question?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:11 pm to theantiquetiger
Add humans to that list
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:11 pm to theantiquetiger
People frick and eat monkeys over there.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:12 pm to theantiquetiger
As Joseph Conrad said, Africa is the heart of darkness.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:12 pm to thesoccerfanjax
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Education, healthcare, infrastructure to name a few.
These don't cause the origination of the virus, just the spread of the virus
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:13 pm to theantiquetiger
Sanitation?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:15 pm to DrSteveBrule
Because they do
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:15 pm to theantiquetiger
If it wasn't for us sustaining life and transporting resources most of the human life on Africa would be dead. It has shown the conditions are to harsh for live to survive, but we ship in water food and other resources instead of letting nature run its course
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:16 pm to theantiquetiger
Poor healthcare, poor nutrition (equals weaker immune system), poor hygiene, Lots of people living in close quarters with wild animals and other people. Generally warm climate.
Most developing areas of the world in tropical/subtropical climates are usually pretty disease-ridden. For the same reasons.
Most developing areas of the world in tropical/subtropical climates are usually pretty disease-ridden. For the same reasons.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:18 pm to theantiquetiger
I thought the U.S. government invented AIDS?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:18 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
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If it wasn't for us sustaining life and transporting resources most of the human life on Africa would be dead. It has shown the conditions are to harsh for live to survive, but we ship in water food and other resources instead of letting nature run its course
You do realize not all of Africa is desert or safari plains, right?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:19 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
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If it wasn't for us sustaining life and transporting resources most of the human life on Africa would be dead. It has shown the conditions are to harsh for live to survive, but we ship in water food and other resources instead of letting nature run its course
Being that humans started in that part of the world, I disagree. They don't recieve that much aide really. And nature would run its course without help, but not in the sense that everyone would die that you're speakin of. The population of the area would decrease a little but eventually balance itself.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:25 pm to theantiquetiger
Cradle of civilization
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:27 pm to lsu480
Monkeys frick frogs there
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:29 pm to theantiquetiger
well obviously that's because I don't want to get banned
Posted on 10/1/14 at 6:36 pm to theantiquetiger
Over population due to destruction/extraction of natural resources and poking anything that moves.
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