Not only is that factually incorrect as the other user pointed out, but you may be surprised that more than half of the worlds population lives in this circle (https://i.imgur.com/CK6aONG.jpg), so the fact that a lot of diseases originate there isn't as surprising as you might think.

Not to mention that diseases can break out everywhere, making the response to a pandemic significantly more important than trying to shift blame for what is essentially a game of chance.

It's still pretty surprising, and probably has more to do with cultural practices of eating all kinds of wild animals, than with population density.

How many diseases originated in India?

>factually incorrect

It's not. SARS is from China.

>not to mention that diseases can break out everywhere

>essentially a game of chance

It's 100% preventable. Just cut contact with wildlife that spreads these viruses.

I'm only correcting the fallacy of praising any goverment that fails to address the root causes of these problems.

>All the recent outbreaks of viruses like this have originated from East Asia.

That's not true. Swine flu came from Mexico and MERS, as the name implies, started in the Middle East

I do mean SARS which first surfaced in the 2000s in China.

Swine flu has been around for much longer, at least for 100 years.

Having one example and phrasing it to sound like multiple is misleading, imo.

Sorry about that. It wasn't the point, as SARS is caused by many different strains of the same type of virus.

The first outbreak of SARS-CoV was identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002.

Thats almost 20 years ago.

Also Swine Infulenza does not originate from Mexico.

The flu colloquially known as swine flu from 2009 did start in Mexico.