Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19, may have emerged at a wet market in Wuhan, China.1 The term wet market denotes any place selling fresh produce, but global attention has focused on markets selling live, sometimes wild, animals. To avoid future pandemics of zoonotic diseases, leading international figures have called for an international ban on wet markets.1 However, from the perspective of planetary health,2 which draws a connection between the health of humans and their environment, engaging in small-scale animal husbandry—of which live-animal markets often form a part—while reducing global meat consumption and more rigorously enforcing a ban on illegal wildlife trade would be beneficial.
Source: The Lancet Planetary Health
Authors: Ivica Petrikova, Jennifer Cole, Andrew Farlow
Institutions: Royal Holloway University of London, University of Oxford
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $5,000
OpenAlex ID: W3035575621