The coronavirus isn’t the first disease that jumped from animals to humans. This is historically the way that many of the communicable diseases that plague humankind have spread, beginning with the plague. It was when humans became sedentary and first figured out how to domesticate animals, confining them to small spaces – and often living with them in the same quarters – that veritable breeding grounds for germs were created. The Wuhan market is just one in a long line of such incidents.

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