Will a global pandemic dampen the Chinese obsession with eating wild and exotic animals? I would
like to see the autocratic Chinese government step in and lock down the Chinese
driven trade in endangered species, but since they can't even control the trade
of more domestic wildlife, I don’t have much hope.
A new nationwide ban on the sale of wildlife will affect markets, restaurants and online shops. Health experts have long raised concerns about unhygienic and cramped conditions in some Chinese markets, where wild and often poached animals are packed together.
Scientific
evidence that various strains of the coronavirus are directly linked to wild animals is conclusive. The direct
link to the current outbreak hasn’t been established, but it is only a matter of
sorting the evidence, which will unfortunately occur after most of the victims are
buried.
Health teams are working urgently to determine the origin of the disease. It is from the same family of viruses as Sars, which was passed to humans from bats by masked palm civets, and Mers, which was carried from bats to humans by camels.
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