So, did this really all begin with a bat?

It’s pretty impressive how quickly we’ve all adapted to living in a global pandemic, but it’s time for a reality check - how the fuck did we get here in the first place?

Rachel Nuwer, journalist and author of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Animal Trafficking takes host Suprina and Brent resident Kamiah back to the beginning of all this - to Wuhan in China and back to the seafood and meat market where it’s believed COVID-19 originated. 

She describes how these kinds of markets are the perfect laboratory for potentially lethal viruses to jump from animals to humans and how, if we don’t change our ways when it comes to the illegal and legal wildlife trade, it’s only a matter of time before the next global pandemic…

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Rose de Larrabeiti, Lucas Fothergill, Jess Lawson and Moeed Majeed and is part of our bonus series - Covid-19 Fact Checkers.  

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