Daszak noted that China had financially supported wildlife farming in Yunnan and other southern provinces as part of its rural development strategy for the summer. “Exotic animals such as civets, porcupines, legumes, raccoon dogs and bamboo rats are bred there and bred in captivity,” he told NPR. But last February, the government abruptly shut them down.
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Daszak also revealed that the WHO team found evidence that the farms were delivering animals to the Wuchan market. “I think the SARS-CoV-2 virus first infected people in southern China,” he said.
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