Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

In reality, many Chinese can’t relate. At a wildlife market in Shenzhen, vendors display live reptiles and mammals for sale. In China, 54 species can be traded legally for human consumption.

The zoonotic spillover theory suggests that SARS-CoV-2, a virus that infects primarily animals, was passed on to humans at a wet market in Wuhan, China. The lab theory speculates that the virus leaked ...

WHO remains open to all hypotheses on the origins of Covid-19, including zoonotic spillover and lab leak theories.