Why China’s wildlife ban is not enough to stop another virus outbreakThis Jan. 17, 2020, photo, shows the closed Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, the suspected epicenter of the country’s novel coronavirus outbreak. (Kyodo News )SHANGHAI — When SARS hit the world in 2003, China went after the civet.The weasel-like animal, eaten as a delicacy in southern China, was suspected of being an intermediary host of the virus that infected 8,000 people and killed 800 in China and across the world. Tens of thousands of civets were drowned or electrocuted.China also banned the hunting, trading and consumption of wildlife. But that restriction was lifted three months later. The National Forestry and Grassland Administration announced that 54 types of wildlife, civets included, could be consumed and sold, as long as they were raised on farms.By 2019, the wildlife trade was thrivin
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