Almost half of traded wildlife carry disease-causing pathogens

The carcasses of hog badgers and leopard cats hang at a wildlife market in China.Credit: H Lansdown/Alamy

Nearly half of all wild mammal species traded for food, fur, research and traditional medicines carry at least one pathogen that causes…

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