‘Another Wuhan in the making?’: Undercover in a Thailand market selling live animals
Wet markets selling live animals have been branded dangerous by the World Health Organization. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
But across Asia – crowded wet markets are very much open for business.
Yesterday, the conservationist Jane Goodall told Channel 4 News about her fears about human interference with animals.
Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller has been secretly filming inside South East Asia’s biggest live animal market in the heart of Bangkok – which one Thai newspaper says is “another Wuhan in the making”.
A warning, there are distressing scenes in his report.
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