Greg Norman at Foxnews.com offers a piece on the “wet markets” that are suspected of being the source of the Coronavirus outbreak.
As medical professionals around the world are searching
for ways to stop the coronavirus outbreak, greater scrutiny is
being cast on the “wet markets” suspected to have played a role
in the initial spread of the sickness.
While rumors have swirled that
the virus originated in bats and then infected another animal that passed
it onto people at a market in the southeastern Chinese city of Wuhan, scientists have not yet
determined exactly how the new coronavirus infected
people. But these kinds of markets are known to
operate in not the most sanitary conditions.
“You’ve got live animals, so there’s feces everywhere. There’s blood because of
people chopping them up,” Peter Daszak, president
of EcoHealth Alliance, which works to protect wildlife and public
health from emerging diseases, told the Associated Press last
month.
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