China's wet markets can include these bizarre, unusual items
China’s so-called wet markets have long offered bizarre and unusual items, and have been known to operate in not-very-sanitary conditions.
China’s so-called wet markets have long offered bizarre and unusual items, and have been known to operate in not-very-sanitary conditions.
Rumors have swirled that the coronavirus passed from animals to humans at one such market in the southeastern city of Wuhan, though scientists have not yet determined exactly how that happened.
“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.
“Wet markets,” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, are places “for the sale of fresh meat, fish, and produce.” They also sell an array of exotic animals. Click here for more.
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