Where Pandemics Originate

This map - via ScienceDirect shows where pandemics have newly emerged or re-surged. "Disease emergence reflects dynamic balances and imbalances, within complex globally distributed ecosystems comprising humans, animals, pathogens, and the environment. " The article also states that "newly emerging (and re-emerging) infectious diseases have been threatening humans since the neolithic revolution, 12,000 years ago, when human hunter-gatherers settled into villages to domesticate animals and cultivate crops."

Hopefully the map will challenge typical western assumptions about where pandemics originate.