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- Title
Wet markets--a continuing source of severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza?
- Authors
Webster, Robert G
- Abstract
Live-animal markets (wet markets) provide a source of vertebrate and invertebrate animals for customers in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Wet markets sell live poultry, fish, reptiles, and mammals of every kind. Live-poultry markets (mostly chicken, pigeon, quail, ducks, geese, and a wide range of exotic wild-caught and farm-raised fowl) are usually separated from markets selling fish or red-meat animals, but the stalls can be near each other with no physical separation. Despite the widespread availability of affordable refrigeration, many Asian people prefer live animals for fresh produce. Wet markets are widespread in Asian countries and in countries where Asian people have migrated. Live-poultry markets were the source of the H5N1 bird-influenza virus that transmitted to and killed six of 18 people in Hong Kong.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2004, Vol 363, Issue 9404, p234
- ISSN
1474-547X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15329-9