Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As medical professionals around the world are searching for ways to stop the coronavirus outbreak, greater ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Animal rights groups are ramping up pressure on countries to shut down their wet markets as the coronavirus ...

Remember the raccoon dog? The adorable fox-like critter made headlines in the spring of 2023, when it was implicated in some preliminary research on the source of the virus that causes COVID-19.

WASHINGTON – In the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government moved quickly to ban wildlife consumption and crack down on certain "wet markets" where snakes, civets and other ...

The stigmatization of Asian people and their culture as “inferior” or “exotic” isn’t a new phenomenon. What is considered acceptable or “strange” meat is often the result of arbitrary cultural norms, ...

Last year, Peter Daszak, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigative team that looked into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, told NPR that he believed the outbreak most likely ...

In the mid-2000s I was a journalist based in Shanghai and I came upon what seemed like a great story idea. China’s economic rise had created a fascinating dynamic with the animal realm. While a ...

If you have ever been to a shopping area where butchers and grocers sell fresh produce straight from the farm, then you have been to something that would, in some parts of the world, be called a wet ...

Wet markets in China — like the one where the coronavirus outbreak is believed to have originated — are back in business, despite calls from US officials to keep them shuttered. Since Beijing last ...

A "wet market" in Wuhan, China, is catching the blame as the probable source of the current coronavirus outbreak that's sweeping the globe. Patients who came down with disease at the end of December ...