Sadly the Chinese Government banned these practices years ago, but the pangolin in particular has scales that are an aphrodisiac. One of the rarest animals in the World. Wet markets continue to thrive. Historically because of a lack of keeping food stuffs fresh as well as eating different dishes to the Western World.
France still sells live produce: Geese, ducks, chickens, snails .......... the UK has been battery farming without problems for years apart from the cruelty aspect, now the public are moving away from cheap UK food: since the horse meat scandal, remember that? : but we aren't told clearly enough where cheap chicken is raised. How some foods are raised in Europe but packed in the UK meaning it is British ......
The 1st World Governments knew that the next pandemic would be C-19. They weren't sure when it would begin nor where it would start from. Most European countries stocked piled PPE apart from the UK. Apparnently. Some PPE was delivered with a date use b4 2014 [I think]
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I suspect that the slum dwellers World wide have high death rates routinely. Usually the media don't focus on those.
TB is another big killer which is of course treatable.
