by Jeffry Babb
For years, epidemiologists have been warning that the world was overdue for an outbreak of disease that would rival Spanish Flu, which killed millions after World War I.
The intermingling of animals and humans has inevitably introduced novel diseases into the human population. China’s so-called “wet markets”, where wild animals are sold and butchered with no hygienic precautions are only one example.
For those people whose image of China is formed by shiny cities li…
