id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-281512-79g22dk6 Aguirre, A. Alonso Illicit Wildlife Trade, Wet Markets, and COVID‐19: Preventing Future Pandemics 2020-07-05 .txt text/plain 3829 188 54 This article will explore the connections among the current pandemic, live-animal markets, the spread of animal-related diseases, and the illicit wildlife trade and will include a set of policy recommendations prescribed to prevent future outbreaks stemming from these issues. It further explains "the identification of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in civet cats and other wild animals in live animal markets suggests that this novel human pathogen emerged as a result of an interspecies transmission" (Poon et al., 2005 (Poon et al., , p. The devastation resulting from the spread of COVID-19 could potentially serve as a future warning for what is to come, if practices such as illicit wildlife trade and wet markets are allowed to continue on a global scale. Research must focus on the central causes of the spread of zoonotic diseases such as illicit wildlife trade and wet markets. ./cache/cord-281512-79g22dk6.txt ./txt/cord-281512-79g22dk6.txt