Thirteen Gorillas was definitely my favorite out of the first three chapters of the book. The role the animal kingdom played into spillover to humans in this chapter was very eye opening. Also, Ebola having an average 50% fatality rate is very terrifying. The fact that fruit bats were the reservoir hosts is very scary because they gave the ebola to the monkeys by leaving their droppings and urine on food in the jungles of Africa. The monkeys were eating this fruit and dying and villagers in Africa had no idea the monkeys were infected when using the monkeys as meat to eat. You never know what animals or anything in today's world could be doing to possibly affect the process of food or affecting one's health in general. All it took was some bat droppings to get on some food and monkeys eating it to later affects humans by eating the monkeys. This can easily happen with common animals in t eh US such as cows and pigs. It has already happened with swine flu, so it shows you how we have to make sure animals we eat don't have any sort of infectious disease. It just shows you how cautious you have to be in today's society on what you are eating because you don't know where it has been. This chapter will definitely make me more cautious on what I eat, especially animal foods, and where it is coming from because you never know where there can be a slip up and the food could be contaminated with some disease.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ebola-virus-disease