Inside Nigeria's wet markets: Shocking footage reveals pangolins, sea turtles and monkeys being sold in Lagos both dead and alive - raising fears the next virus could come from Africa.
Stunning film seen via MailOnline uncovers the shocking territory of Nigerian wet business sectors which can possibly cause future infection episodes in people.
Bunch creatures including pangolins, primates and ocean turtles are held — both dead and alive — in limited spaces while laborers neglect to clean surfaces or apparatuses and don't wear suitable PPE, including gloves.
Video likewise shows a large number of the creatures being manhandled before they are butchered; photographic proof uncovers merchants bubbling creatures including pangolins, canines and manatees while they are as yet alive.
WildatLife, a foundation chipping away at the ground in Nigeria, visited Oluwu fish market in Epe, 55 miles east of Lagos.
The volunteers subtly recorded conditions at the market where merchants handle, butcher and sell live and dead creatures.
'Wet business sectors like Oluwo Fish Market situated in Nigeria, encourage and vigorously add to the act of unlawful untamed life exchange and thusly, this training can prompt the spread of zoonotic illnesses,' WildatLife told MailOnline.
'Transportation of creatures for natural life exchange at these business sectors empowers the spread of illnesses from creatures to different creatures and represent a danger to human wellbeing.'
Many primates can be found in the recording stuck in little enclosures while snakes, crocodiles, duikers, ocean turtles, manatees, rodents and parakeets are additionally present.
'All creatures are tainted with something and just some are irresistible to people,' Professor Bennett clarifies.
'Having more creatures in a similar space and in close contact with one another makes it more probable something will arise in people.
'The more biodiverse a territory/nation is (in the jungles for instance), the higher danger there is that something will arise.
'There is a right around 100% danger of something arising in people, however we can't foresee where that is destined to be or what that is destined to be.'
It is thought SARS-CoV-2 bounced from a bat and into a middle of the road species, possibly a pangolin, where it at that point advanced to have the option to contaminate people.
It is conceivable this middle creature would have then given the infection to a human who visited the market. In the event that the transient host was to be sure a pangolin, this might have happened when the contaminated pangolin's scales were ingested as a medication or its meat was devoured.
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