The show Ted talks has many interesting subjects that they talk about for people to have a better understanding of, one of being the Viral Pandemics on mostly HIV.
When people go hunting in the woods or the jungle and are trying to hunt anything that will feed their family it is often called bush meat. The most often killed animal is the primate. Now it was said that how HIV transferred to humans was when people went out to hunt bush meat they may of had an open cut that might of gotten a primates blood in it that had HIV. HIV was transferred from primate to human but not all viruses that animals have can be transferred from animal to human, some your immune system just kills it off and it doesn't affect you. Some that have been transferred are Rabies, Yellow Fever, Ebola and Influenza.
Nathan Wolfe has created a program that lets locals take the blood of all animals that they kills so it can be tested to see what kind of viruses it has. he hopes that this program will someday hope to prevent many other diseases from transferring to humans
I think that this was a good show to watch and it helped to get rid of some myths about how HIV came to humans. I like the man's idea to help prevent future diseases. I feel that one of the ways to stop there being more viruses from animals would to be to stop bush hunting but one would have to stop poverty in the world to do that, so it may take decades for this to happen.
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