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Calls in China to ban the sale of wildlife and exotic species

BY , Feb 14, 2020 10:44 PM - REPORT AN ERROR

The outbreak of a novel coronavirus is prompting calls in China to ban the sale of wildlife and exotic species.

The COVID-19 virus spreading throughout the globe is suspected to have originated in the same type of live animal market that spawned the SARS epidemic in 2002.

Now, more than 60-million people are under lockdown in more than a dozen Chinese cities, and the virus has sickened more than eight times more people than SARS.

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