system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Africans are discouraged from eating bushmeat because it can cause diseases like HIV and Ebola to jump from animals to humans. But Africans have presumably been hunting since time immemorial. So why didn't these practices wipe out humanity a long time ago if it's so risky?

And why isn't it risky for a North American hunter to kill and eat rabbits, deer, and turkeys?
gpt
If 20% of the people who eat Bushmeat on a regular basis die, that's totally unacceptable as a risk to a modern society.

But to an animal, losing 20% to a disease to gain access to a broader food source is fine.

That's why we don't still live in the wild forests of Chernobyl. As a population they'd survive - lifespans would be shorter but past the breeding phase, infant mortality would be higher but not past our ability to breed, and more people would get cancer. 

It would be unconscionable not to move those people somewhere where they don't have to live like baby machines to ensure some survivors, but that is reality for all animals in the wild - you try to survive long enough to have enough kids that one of them makes it as far as you did.