But two things, to Chen’s group, seemed clear. First, there are a lot of coronaviruses potentially dangerous to humans circulating among various wild animals—bats, palm civets, camels, pangolins, who knows what else. Secondly, and for the sake of wildlife conservation as well as human health, it is important to reduce disruptive contact between people and wild animals, either captured or farmed, that risks spillover of such viruses. When you have Malayan pangolins, abducted from elsewhere in southern Asia, trafficked across the border, sobbing out their last breaths at a rescue center in a
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