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May 19, 2020
Patricia Briggs
San Francisco
Many thanks to Elizabeth Lam (“Wuhan picks up the pieces to crawl back to life,” April 9) for calling attention to the dangers of live animal markets. One such wet market in Wuhan, China, offered peacocks, rats, foxes, crocodiles, wolf cubs, turtles, snakes, wild pigs and more for sale.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the foremost U.S. authority on COVID-19, argued that the current crisis is a “direct result of (the wet markets).” Fauci told Fox News in April that authorities should “shut down those things right away.”
Just as with the 2000 SARS epidemic, after the recent virus crisis curve flattened in China, live animals are again for sale.
Astonishingly, wet markets are still in operation in major U.S. cities including San Francisco and Oakland. Pitiable diseased and dying animals are offered for purchase.
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