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Wuhan virus: China's wild animal markets a breeding ground for disease
Workers in close contact with animals during trading, slaughter and cooking
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A photo taken on Jan 15, 2020, showing a butcher selling yak meat at a market in Beijing.
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What hits a visitor to China's wild animal markets immediately is the smell. It is an odour so overwhelmingly putrid that one would leave at once if one did not have any real business to be there.
Chickens, ducks, geese, swans, pigs, goats and sheep are commonplace and kept in separate pens.
