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The peer‑reviewed study that called China's markets a "time bomb"
A 2007 peer‑reviewed study called southern China’s live‑animal markets a “time bomb.” What did institutions decide to do when the warning was signed?
The peer‑reviewed study that called China's markets a "time bomb"
In this episode, we lay out the documented warnings, institutions, and decisions that framed pandemic risk decades before the virus that killed millions. It maps what scientists found, what global systems existed, and the choices that left warning signs unaddressed - so what did policymakers do with that knowledge?
Date: 2007
Person: Peter Daszak
Topic: live exotic‑mammal markets…
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