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Poll: Over 90% of Southeast Asians Want to Ban Wet Markets

More than nine out of ten people in Southeast Asia want to end wildlife trafficking and shut down wet markets, according to a poll from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), demonstrating unprecedented consensus after the Wuhan coronavirus spread from animals to humans late last year, Voice of America reported on Wednesday.

Workers wearing facemasks make a barbecue at a market in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei p

Bill Gates: Trump Halting W.H.O. Funding Is ‘Dangerous’

Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to halt the United States’ funding of the World Health Organization for failing to properly warn the world about the Chinese coronavirus, calling the move “dangerous.”

Bill Gates agrees to cooperate with South Korea on COVID-19 vaccine

Schumer: Attacking W.H.O. Isn’t Making America Better

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that President Trump won’t make the situation in the United States better by criticizing the World Health Organization and all the president’s energy seems to

Chuck Schumer on 12/17/19 "All In"

China Reopens Wet Markets with World Health Organization’s Blessing

China’s notorious “wet markets,” the open-air wildlife slaughterhouses that were supposedly the mechanism for the Wuhan coronavirus jumping from animals to humans, are back in business with the approval of the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO seal of approval stunned government officials and health experts around the globe.

Eating dog meat to mark the summer solstice is a tradition in China's Guangxi province