Why new viruses occur in china

Why new viruses occur in china..?

It was new year eve, 2019 when health officials in china admitted they had a problem

A rapidly growing number of people were developing a dry cough and fever before getting pneumonia and for some, it turned fatal. 
Doctors have named the diseases COVID-19 or coronavirus diseases, 2019” indicating that a type of virus is causing the illness when they tried to trace its origin, they found a likely source: HUANAN market WUHAN, China- this food market.

Out of the 1^st 41 patients, 27 had been here. It wasn't conclusive evidence but Chinese officials quickly shut down the market. They had seen this happen before a place just like this

In 2002 a coronavirus had emerged at a very similar market in southern china it eventually reached 29 countries and killed nearly 800 people, now 18 years later this virus is in at least 71 countries and has already killed over 3,127. So, what do these markets have to do with the coronavirus outbreak…. And why is it happening in china???

A lot of viruses that make us sick, actually originate in animals, some of the viruses that cause the

• Flu come from birds and pigs,
• HIV/AIDS comes from chimpanzees, 
• The deadly Ebola virus likely originates in bats. 
• And in the case of the 2019 coronavirus, there is some evidence it went from a bat to a pangolin before infecting a human. 

While viruses are very good at jumping between species its rare for a deadly one to make this journey all the way to the human. That’s because it would need all these hosts to encounter each other at some point that’s where the Wuhan market comes in its  a wet market

It was not a surprise at all and I think it was not surprising to many scientists the cages are stacked one over other animals at the bottom are often socked with all this kind of liquid, animal excrement pus, blood or whatever the liquid they are receiving from the animals above And that exactly how a virus can jump from one animal to another. 
If that animal then comes in contact with or is consumed by a human, the virus could potentially infect them and then it spreads to other humans it causes an outbreak.

The reason all their animals are in the same market is because of a decision china’s government made decades ago!!

In 1970 china was falling apart famine had killed more than 36 million people and the communist regime, which controlled all the food production, was failing to feed its more than 900 million people.

In 1978, on the verge of collapse, the regime gave up this control and allowed private farming. While large companies increasingly dominated the production of popular food like pork and poultry, some smaller famines turned to catch and raising wild animals as a way to sustain themselves

At the very beginning, it was mostly peasant household, backyard operations of turtles, for example, that’s how wildlife farming started to get off the ground

And since it started to feed and sustain people, the Chinese government-backed it. 
So it was imperative for the government to encourage people to make a living through household activities

And then in 1988, the give made a decision that changed the shape of wildlife trade in china

They enacted the wildlife protection law which designated the animals as a resource owned by the state and protected people engaged in the utilization of wildlife resources.

And that some of the most devastating problems of the law, because if you designate the wildlife as “natural resources” that means its something you can use for human benefits and with that an industry was born

                                                                                                                                                                 

Bigger population meant greater chances that a sick animal should spread disease farmers were also raising a wide variety of animals which meant more viruses on farms

But after a few months after the outbreak, the Chinese govt. declared 54 species of wildlife animals including civet cats, legal to farm again and then in 2016 give sanctioned the farming of some endangered species like tigers and pangolins

They were also promoted as tonic products as body-building, as sex-enhancing and of course like a disease-fighting. None of the claims can hold water. 
Yet these products become popular with an influential portion of the Chinese population

Soon after the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese govt. shut down thousands of wet markets and temporarily banned wildlife trade again

#Chinese wild animal trade should be banned for good in future viruses are to be stopped 

#will we learn our lesson from the coronavirus epidemic?

But unless these activities lead to a permanent ban on wildlife farming outbreak like this are bound to happen again...