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The Mail said, “One source says that: ‘the markets
have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they
did before coronavirus’ despite the outbreaks links to
bats.”
The paper said, “Terrified dogs and cats crammed into
rusty cages. Bats and scorpions offered for sale as
traditional medicine. Rabbits and ducks slaughtered and
skinned side by side on a stone floor covered with blood,
filth, and animal remains.”
The Mail’s in-country correspondent visited a market in
Guilin in southwest China.
The market displayed fresh dog and cat meat, and live dogs
in cages. The story carried a photo of huddled caged cats to
be slaughtered.
The Mail previously has documented how the Chinese cook
dogs alive, either by dumping them in boiling water or
throwing them on a super-hot grill.
In another meat market, a correspondent in Dongguan in
southern china photographed a medicine seller reopening for
business with a billboard advertising bats.
China
first discovered COVID-19 infected people in December.
Washington lawmakers have accused the Chinese Communist
Party of hiding the outbreak. China
assured the world as late as mid-January that COVID-19 was
not spread human-to-human. The World Health Organization
accepted this and voted on Jan. 23 not to declare the
epidemic a global health energy.
Chinese doctors knew the truth. Wuhan police threatened
eight would-be physician whistleblowers in January not to
spread “rumors” about the disease. One, Dr. Li Wenliang,
published his police warning before he died of COVID-19 he
contracted while treating patients.
Thousands of Chinese continued to arrive in the U.S.
daily during December and January before President Trump
restricted travel on Feb. 1.
The Washington Times reported on March 18 that,
“Communist China
has allowed wild animal markets to offer live bats,
raccoons, civets and other species, and a series of studies
shows the animals are teeming with viruses that threaten
humans.”
The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
published a 2006 study that said, “The data obtained so
far strongly suggest that bats (horseshoe bats in
particular) are most likely the reservoir host of SARS-CoV.”
Xu Jinguo, a scientist who advises the Chinese
government, told ScienceMag.com he has urged Beijing to
control wild animal markets.
“The virus looks like viruses isolated from bats, but
how it was transmitted from bats to people is still a
question,” Mr. Xu said in January. “Several groups in China
have been working on bat coronaviruses for years.”
A World Health Organization spokesman released a
statement to The Times on the Daily Mail story:
“”The article documents the presence of cats and dogs
sold in a live market. These are not considered wild animals
and are therefore not covered by the new legislations passed
recently in China
forbidding trade and consumption of wild animals. The stall
selling traditional medicine made with wild animal
ingredients is advertising processed medicine products and
is not selling live bats or other wild animals or their
fresh meat. The video with the woman eating a bat dish is an
old video that has been around for months if not years.
“This being said, hygienic conditions, waste management
and proper handling of live animals appears not to be
appropriate and would still require improvements. These
elements are parts of the WHO recommendations on how to
improve live markets and minimize the risk for unnecessary
transmission of pathogens. WHO is increasing its engagements
with Member States to support them in improving live and wet
markets as well as open food markets in general.”