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This is another an hour series of coronavirus episodes of Scientific American Science Talk

hosted on March 19th, 2020.

I'm Steve Merski.

In early March, the Prime Minister of Vietnam directed the government there to draft a directive

to prohibit wildlife trade and consumption to be submitted to him by April 1st.

In February, China took similar actions.

To find out more about the wildlife trade and its relationship to the current coronavirus outbreak,

I called Christian Walzer.

He's the Executive Director of Global Health at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

We both live in the Bronx, but due to the current situation, we spoke by phone.

Tell me about the situation in Vietnam where the wildlife outdoor markets or wildlife markets for food consumption are apparently going to be banned.

And what's the situation elsewhere where such markets have traditionally existed?

Yeah, so these markets, which are really very unique, even on a global scale, just by their sheer size and diversity of species, which are traded at these markets, have already been banned beginning of February in China.

So there's been a permanent ban on any kind of wildlife trade, be it for consumption, for medicinal

purposes, even for fur, any kind of wildlife product is prohibited at the moment.

The movement trade, sale and consumption is temporarily banned.

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