Calls are coming to crack down on China's wet markets, which some suspect are the place where the coronavirus could have first infected humans. Such markets are known for selling live animals such as ...

In the mid-2000s I was a journalist based in Shanghai and I came upon what seemed like a great story idea. China’s economic rise had created a fascinating dynamic with the animal realm. While a ...

Remember the raccoon dog? The adorable fox-like critter made headlines in the spring of 2023, when it was implicated in some preliminary research on the source of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Animal rights groups are ramping up pressure on countries to shut down their wet markets as the coronavirus ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As medical professionals around the world are searching for ways to stop the coronavirus outbreak, greater ...

The Chinese government has reportedly allowed some wet markets in the country to reopen as the coronavirus threat in the country has allegedly decreased. The coronavirus that has killed more than ...

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The stigmatization of Asian people and their culture as “inferior” or “exotic” isn’t a new phenomenon. What is considered acceptable or “strange” meat is often the result of arbitrary cultural norms, ...

SHANGHAI — As some media outlets cover the coronavirus, journalists are mixing up wet markets and wildlife markets. But most wet markets are not wildlife markets, and confusing the two is dangerous.

Last year, Peter Daszak, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigative team that looked into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, told NPR that he believed the outbreak most likely ...

If you have ever been to a shopping area where butchers and grocers sell fresh produce straight from the farm, then you have been to something that would, in some parts of the world, be called a wet ...

Wet markets in China — like the one where the coronavirus outbreak is believed to have originated — are back in business, despite calls from US officials to keep them shuttered. Since Beijing last ...