I've heard diseases start in Africa because:
1) Africans have more similar DNA to primates than nonAfricans
2) They regularly consume primate and bat meat called "bush meat"
3) They don't cook their food
All three increase to the risk of disease, when together they are a petri dish for pandemics.
Totally untrue. That's a vile, false statement spread by white supremacists. Besides, what diseases are we talking about ?
Take a list of all recent lethal viruses- Bird Flu, SARS, Swine Flu. All of them started in China/ Hong Kong etc.
Also , Ebola has hardly "started". It has been around since the 1970s and regularly strikes once or twice a decade.