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Thursday, February 27, 2020
Mother Nature Fights Back
How about Coronavirus?
Hit them with that, and see if that might cut down on the wildlife trade in Asia. It could happen.
In theory, they were already banned. But the bans were not enforced and the loopholes even in the new law are massive. We know that civets and bats have been implicated in past SARS outbreaks, and yet the Chinese left them in the market -- and civets are actually ranched.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/science/coronavirus-pangolin-wildlife-ban-china.html
They already banned wildlife markets..
In theory, they were already banned. But the bans were not enforced and the loopholes even in the new law are massive. We know that civets and bats have been implicated in past SARS outbreaks, and yet the Chinese left them in the market -- and civets are actually ranched.
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