SARS and Coronavirus have both been traced back to China's wet markets, so why are they still allowed to operate?.
As new cases of the coronavirus continue to decline in China, thousands of people have started to flood back into controversial wet markets across the country.
A number of animals, including bats and the highly endangered pangolin, have been identified as possible culprits for the virus.
But it appears the recent COVID-19 outbreak has done little deter other animal markets across the country from continuing to trade.
“The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus,” a correspondent to visited the market told the publication.
This isn’t the first virus that has been linked to wet markets, with the SARS outbreak in 2003 also thought to have originated there.
A study published in 2007 from researchers at the University of Hong Kong described the culture of eating at these wet markets as a “time bomb” for a new virus. »
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