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Contact: John Delaney
jdelaney@wcs.org
718-220-3275
Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Markets

Caption: Wild and domestic birds can often be found together in wildlife markets, as well as on the way to markets, as in this photograph. Such commingling of different species gives diseases new opportunities to mutate and spread.

Credit: D. Collins/Wildlife Conservation Society

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Related news release: Emerging (disease) markets


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