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See also boar, rabbit, and bird hunting.

A lot of old viruses that still affect us came out of animal husbandry and/or hunting in Europe and the near east.

It’s easy to tut tut because we don’t trade in wild caught meat today (except fish) but we did, and those viruses are everywhere now.




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