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Live animal markets have been a historically common origin for new diseases - cities were an absolute disaster disease-mortality wise until the hygiene initiati
by XorNot 5y ago
Live animal markets have been a historically common origin for new diseases - cities were an absolute disaster disease-mortality wise until the hygiene initiatives started cleaning them up.
Extended, concentrated exposure to animals has always been a breeding ground for new plagues.
- q1w2 5y agoI think you are unnecessarily conflating hygiene with wild animal contact. Even a perfectly hygienic butcher shop and wet market can transmit a new disease. Keeping it clean is good to reduce the transmission of common illnesses - but the genesis of a new disease can easily be passed in a clean market.