Shut down ‘wet markets’ to prevent next viral plague, animal advocates say

(HealthDay)—Sometime in the late fall of 2019, probably in a live-animal “wet market” in Wuhan, China, a strain of coronavirus previously harbored only by animals made the leap to humans. There are various theories on the intermediary species involved—snakes, bats or even an armadillo-like creature called the pangolin have been implicated. A few months later, […]