re: #295 FurryOldGuyJeans

The one thing I have always wondered, though, is if we are so close to chimpanzees genetically, then why has there never been a strain of chimp flu that runs rampant through the human population, having to exclude the closer contact pigs have with humans on average.

It could be that the chimpanzee population is too small and spread out to provide a sufficient base within which such a virus could evolve.