‘Reservoir for viruses’ China told to permanently ban bat trade to prevent next pandemic
Almost 200,000 people from 210 countries and territories across the globe have lost their lives from the recent outbreak of COVID-19, which is said to have originated from the Wuhan Seafood Market in China. Scientists say the virus likely to have come from bats, before possibly spreading to pangolins, with the wet markets – where wildlife animals are traded and consumed – coming under fire as a possible hotbed to allow the jump to humans. In February, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a temporary ban on trading and eating wild animals and officials began shutting down markets across the country.
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肥爷 01/05/2020
In the end nothing will kill us except us. We are just ignorant race
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