b'Other zoonotic viral epidemics What are they? green monkeys imported from Uganda 199 . While factory farming is a huge risk for theIt can also be found in bats, with the virus creation and spread of disease to people,crossing to people who are bitten when there have also been many other significantthey catch the bats to eat 200 . viral disease outbreaks in the last 50 years that also stem from our poor treatment of -MVD has a high fatality rate in people, with or inappropriate interaction with - animals.deaths typically occurring between 8 and 9 The deadliest of these has been caused bydays after onset of symptoms.the HIV virus and AIDS. HIV and AIDS Ebola HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus -Like Marburg virus disease, Ebola is a severe developed from a virus in chimpanzeesand often fatal haemorrhagic fever with a and most likely jumped species after wildhigh fatality rate. It is thought that fruit bats chimps were hunted, killed and eaten 197 .are the natural hosts of this virus which The first verified case of HIV is from a bloodalso infects other wild animals including sample taken in 1959 from a man living inchimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, forest what is now Kinshasa in the Democraticantelope and porcupines 201 . Republic of Congo. By the early 1980s, it had spread widely, and has now killedThe West African Ebola virus epidemic more than 35 million people globally sincebetween 2013-2016 caused 11,325 1987 198 .deaths 202 . It is thought that catching and eating wild animals was the cause 203 .Marburg Virus DiseaseMarburg virus disease (MVD) is a highlyMiddle East Respiratory virulent disease that causes haemorrhagicSyndrome (MERS)fever. Two large outbreaks that occurredThis disease is caused by a novel simultaneously in Marburg and Frankfurtcoronavirus first identified in Saudi Arabia in Germany, and in Belgrade, Serbia, inin 2012 204 .1967, led to the initial recognition of theSymptoms include fever, cough and disease. The outbreak was associatedshortness of breath. Pneumonia is with laboratory research using Africancommon, but not always present. 30'