Wildlife, Disease, and the Future

Pandemics are likely to increase in number. This should be a lesson.

By: Gregory McCann

Was it a pangolin, slaughtered in the wet markets of Wuhan, that brought the world economy to its knees and wiped out tens of thousands of humans in 2020? Or was it a bat, also hailing from the dreadful wildlife markets of Hebei, that did this?

It must be acknowledged that health problems stemming from markets are hardly an Asian pheno…