China's unregulated wild animal trade may lead to more future pandemics: Scientists

International media has reported that according to scientists have said that China’s animal tre can bring in more viral outbreaks. Talking about illegal animal tre, researchers said that recent outbreak of Coronavirus epidemic indicates that practice remains widespre and is a growing risk to human health. 

Originated in animal meat

According to international media reports, dely Coronavirus which has killed 56 people and infected nearly 2,000 people has originated from animals trafficked for food. final findings are yet to be anunced but Chinese health officials believe that coronavirus originated from wildlife sold illegally at meat market in Wuhan.

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central animal market in Wuhan offers everything from rats to wolf puppies and giant salamanders.  scientists have claimed that more than 60 per cent of viruses reach human via animals. Previously, it was discovered that SARS-like Ebola traced its origins from bats while HIV has been traced back to African primates.

Peter Daszak, president of EcoHeakth Alliance, a global NGO focussed on infectious disease prevention said that new rmal is that pandemics are going to happen more frequently. He ded that humans are increasingly somehow engaging in contact with animal that carry se viruses.

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Scientists have warned that even familiar menu items like poultry and cattle whose pathogens humans have apted over millennia sometime hit hard with diseases like bird flu or m cow disease. Diana Bell, wildlife disease and conservation biologist said that at least for sake of se wild species’ future and for human health, humans need to reduce consumption of se wild animals.  

As death toll has risen to 56, China has started taking drastic measures to contain spre of disease. Earlier today, China anunced a temporary ban on tre of all wild animals. In a joint directive from three ncies including Ministry of Agriculture, authorities ordered that raising, transporting, or selling all wild animal species has been banned with immediate effect until national epidemic situation is over.

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(With inputs from ncies)