Inside the horrific, inhumane animal markets behind pandemics like coronavirus

You can usually smell the markets before you see them.
Especially if you’re downwind.

It’s a sickly, almost sweet and nauseating smell of death. Once inside, the fetid stench — made worse by blistering temperatures and zero refrigeration — is overwhelming, and it is places like this where the deadly coronavirus originated.

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