Graham notes that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believe that the existing coronavirus pandemic originates from the sale in a rainy market in Wuhan City and that other global public aptitude crises have connected to those markets.
“It is well documented that rainy markets in China have been the source of a number of fitness disorders around the world and that their operation stops immediately,” Graham said in his letter.
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The ‘wet markets’, as explained through the Oxford English Dictionary, are “sale of meat, fish and new products”. They also sell a variety of exotic animals.
While rumors circulate that the virus originated in bats and then ignited some other animal that passed it on to others in a market in the southeastern China city of Wuhan, scientists have not yet made a precise decision about how the new coronavirus inflamed others. But these types of markets are not known to operate under the highest hygienic conditions.
“There are live animals, so there are faeces everywhere. There’s blood from the other people who cut them off,” Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, who works for wildlife and public health for emerging diseases last month, said.
The wholesale seafood market from Huanan to Wuhan, before closing, advertised dozens of species such as giant salamanders, baby crocodiles and live dogs called wild animals, even when they were bred. The Chinese government has reportedly allowed some of the country’s rainy markets to reopen as the risk of contagion has decreased, although Wuhan’s remains closed.
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Like many “wet markets” in Asia and elsewhere, the animals on the Wuhan market lived nearby because they were tied up or stacked in cages.
Animals in “wet markets” are killed on site for some freshness; However, the messy aggregate increases the chances of a new virus skipping other people who handle the animals and starting to spread, experts say.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief infectious disease expert in the White House CrownIng Working Group, criticized China’s resolve to reopen markets and called the resolution “wrong,” according to a Tweet from Graham after a phone call with Fauci.
Greg Norman of Fox News contributed to this report.