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Wild animals were being sold and slaughtered for food and medicine. >> i can't think of a better place to be a virus than a wet market. >> 16 years before the wuhan outbreak, animal traders at guangdong caught the original sars virus also in a wildlife market. >> the viruses take hold, they swap around, and then people come and breathe it in and get exposed to it. that's how viruses spill over. >> in wuhan, the initial cluster of 41 cases of severe pneumonia, about half those patients had been to that market or worked in that market or had some degree of contact with it. >> the chinese governm...