This is misleading at best and disingenious at worst. The spread of most of these diseases is neglible. I compiled numbers: Marburg: ~ 500 cases [0] Nipah: ~

This is misleading at best and disingenious at worst. The spread of most of these diseases is neglible. I compiled numbers: Marburg: ~ 500 cases [0] Nipah: ~ 500 cases [1] Hendra: unknown, seems low though. [2] H5N1: 861 cases [3] Ebola: ~ 35 000 cases, according to [4] H7N9: ~1200 cases [5] MERS: 2500 cases [6] SARS: 8100 cases [7] SARS-Cov-2: 60 000 000 cases, ongoing [8] H1N1 ("Spanish flu"): 500 000 000 cases [9] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus#Recorded_outbreaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus#Recorded_outbrea... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus#Outbreaks_of_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus#Outbreaks_of_disea... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendra_virus#Emergency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendra_virus#Emergency [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1#Transmission_and_host_range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9#Human_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndro... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr... [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr... [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1