20111014

contagion

epidemic. don’t watch tv but try to catch some news through online streaming sites and saw a segment about viral forecast team on the search for the next deadly virus that could jump over from animals to human in central africa where the original source of hiv virus from chimpanzees was discovered... 60 million with hiv virus, 25 million have died since. the villagers are so poor they hunt, eat what they can catch. although they don’t get the disease from consuming, they are exposed to animal viruses while preparing the food when a virus might pass between the blood of an animal and a human or getting bitten by an animal.. it’s not just their problem is it? nathan wolfe’s the viral storm published this week. end hunger in africa. end poverty!