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Wuhan virus: Spotlight on how close wild animals and humans are in China's markets

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SINGAPORE - What immediately hits a visitor to China's wild animal markets is the smell. It is an odour so overwhelmingly putrid that one would leave at once if one didn't have any real business to be there.
Chickens, ducks, geese, swans, pigs, goats and sheep are commonplace and kept in separate pens.
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