Many African cultures have a tradition of eating “bushmeat” (ie. meat from wild animals). It’s not dissimilar to the tradition of hunting deer/rabbit/etc in th

Many African cultures have a tradition of eating “bushmeat” (ie. meat from wild animals). It’s not dissimilar to the tradition of hunting deer/rabbit/etc in the west (which has its own concerns about a disease jumping species like chronic wasting disease aka Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans). However, the diversity of Africa’s “bushmeat” and the economic conditions in some areas seem to increase the chances of a zoonotic disease spreading to humans.