Perhaps that's true.Kevin I've been hunting, cleaning and cooking wild animals since the mid 60's. Deer, duck, dove, rabbit, squirrel, raccoon, possum, woodcock, quail, and yes, even a pig and armadillo or two. I never caught anything from them.
You worry too much.
I do--after all--work in the medical field.
My concern is that post SHTF there will be stress, poor diet, a lack of medical care, and people whom are elderly and/or with chronic medical conditions that will be trying to stay alive in adverse conditions . . . and these circumstances will lower the effectiveness of peoples' immune systems.
Another part of my concerns are that there will be no animal control and no public health department to track zoonotic diseases, so animals and wildlife will not be managed and/or tracked by biologists with their labs and computers.
Yet another valid concern is with things like waste and sewage disposal, and the disposal of dead bodies. Without the proper infrastructure to handle these issues, insects and scavengers will multiply, and disease will be even more of a problem with wild animals. I have seen situations where an elderly person--with a dog or cat--has died in their apartment, and their own dog or cat will chow on the dead body after a certain point (and I am an animal lover, and I don't hold this against their pets).
One last concern is that if our borders collapse, then an influx (or exchange) of refugees may bring rare tropical diseases and parasites that may become established in wild animals.
After SHTF, I believe in prevention and caution over cure . . . at least for the first several months to maybe two or three years until nature settles back into a stable, dynamic equilibrium.
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