The outbreak of COVID-19 around the world was caused by a new corona-virus(冠状病毒)that we have never seen before. It is said that the virus may come from wild animals. People who sold and bought wild animals maybe the first to be infected(感染).
Scientists say bats and pangolins are likely to spread(传播)virus to humans. According to Live Science, bats can carry and spread more than 60 kinds of viruses that can infect humans, such as Ebola and SARS. Other wild animals are also hosts of many kinds if viruses.
Scientists tell people to stop eating wild animals. However, the danger is not just in eating them, but also in touching them. People who hunt, kill, sell or eat wild animals run the risk(风险)of becoming infected.
Keeping wild animals as pets or selling parts of their bodies also bring danger to humans. It is highly possible to come into contact(接触)with the body fluids(液体)of wild animals in this way.
"Trade of wild animals of all kinds should be stopped," Zeng Guang, a medical expert, told China Daily, "Or people will suffer(遭受) a lot, it is too terrible."