ArticleWorld medical & health policy2020
Illicit Wildlife Trade, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: Preventing Future Pandemics.
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- Preventing zoonotic spillover through regulatory frameworks governing wildlife trade: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Rapid Risk Assessment Framework to Estimate Potential for Spillback at Human-Wildlife Interfaces.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial Resistance in African Great Apes.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- One Health Ethics and the Ethics of Zoonoses: A Silent Call for Global Action.Veterinary sciences · 2024Review
- Potential zoonotic spillover at the human-animal interface: A mini-review.Veterinary world · 2024Review
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- Integrating animal welfare into the WHO pandemic treaty: a thematic analysis of civil society perspectives and comparison with treaty drafting.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Policies to prevent zoonotic spillover: a systematic scoping review of evaluative evidence.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a form of human-wildlife conflict: Why and how nondomesticated species should be incorporated into AMR guidance.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- The Impact of Human Activities on Zoonotic Infection Transmissions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Editorial: Health service management and leadership: COVID-style.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Limiting the spillover of zoonotic pathogens from traditional food markets in developing countries and a new market design for risk-proofing.Epidemiology and health · 2023Article
- Wet market biosecurity reform: Three social narratives influence stakeholder responses in Vietnam, Kenya, and the Philippines.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Zoonotic Disease Risks of Live Export of Cattle and Sheep, with a Focus on Australian Shipments to Asia and the Middle East.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- COVID-19 impacts, opportunities and challenges for wildlife farms in Binh Duong and Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam.Global ecology and conservation · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although the exact origin of SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19, is currently unknown, there is substantial evidence to suggest the source of transmission of the virus occurred within the Wuhan wet market. In these markets, bats and wild animals are frequently sold and stored in close contact. During several of the world's past pandemics, bats were essential to the spread of zoonotic diseases from bat to another animal or to humans directly. Live animal markets create the perfect conditions for novel viruses such as COVID-19 to emerge. This paper suggests that to prevent future pandemics, the sale of exotic animals be banned at wet markets. It also advocates for the integration of the analysis of illicit trade with the study of zoonotic disease transmission and pandemics.
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