{"id":6251,"date":"2020-03-01T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2020-04-07T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T05:02:23","slug":"sale-of-wild-animals-in-china-market-may-have-caused-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"Sale of wild animals in China market may have caused coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><em>As seen on the March 2020 issue of Philippine Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before its closure, exotic animals \u2014 from snakes to civet cats \u2014 were available at a wet market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that is now known as ground zero of a new virus killing people with pneumonia-like symptoms and infecting growing numbers of others around the world.<br><br>Around 100 varieties of live animals and poultry were available, from foxes to wolf cubs and masked palm civets.<br><br>Civets are thought by the World Health Organisation to have been a host carrying a virus from bats that jumped to humans in a wet market in Guangdong province near Hong Kong that led to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002-03. SARS killed 774 people worldwide and infected a total of 8,098.<br><br>There were turtles, snakes, rats, hedgehogs and pheasants. More stalls in the west part of the market sold live animals.<br><br>In a market in Conghua district, also in Guangzhou, the sale of live poultry was legal. Live chickens were sold at 17 yuan for half a kilogram at some stands, where dozens of potential customers were in lively bargaining with stall holders, undeterred by developments in Wuhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on the March 2020 issue of Philippine Tribune Before its closure, exotic animals \u2014 from snakes to civet cats \u2014 were available at a wet market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that is now known as ground zero of a new virus killing people with pneumonia-like symptoms and infecting growing numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,138,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6252,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions\/6252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}