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Did the bat they ate fly out of a research facility?
Edit: I'm asking out of fear here people, not political hoohaaery, i genuinely wanted good faith responses, I'm not trying to do a crazy anti reality gotcha.
That’s basically just bats in general, in terms of zoonosis. They live in giant colonies (tons of opportunities for new mutations) and are natural reservoirs of ebola and other diseases.
Don’t eat bat if you have the choice not to, basically.
Plus there's the fact that while their immune system is very mammalian, they have a series of novel adaptations that make them nearly perfect populations for particularly nasty viruses.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bats-immune-system-viruses-ebola-marburg-people