China’s illegal wildlife trade has been the source of untold
suffering for both animals and people attached to trafficking operations, but
now it is implicated in the evolving coronavirus threat that has sealed off the
city of Wuhan and spread to other nations.
George Fu Gao, the director general for China’s Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, said Wednesday that the new 2019-nCoV virus originated
from wild animals illegally sold at a seafood market in the city of some
11 million people. The market is less than a
kilometer from Wuhan’s high-speed railway station, a high-traffic area
in and out of a city that is now effectively quarantined as many of its
citizens seek health .....
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