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72% in Japan see closure of unregulated meat markets as key to preventing pandemics, survey finds

People browse a WWF booth at COP 24, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Katowice, Poland, in December 2018. | GETTY IMAGES / VIA KYODO

KYODO

May 4, 2020

Over 70 percent of the public believes the closure of illegal and unregulated animal markets in China and elsewhere would prevent pandemics like today's from happening in the future, a recent survey by the World Wide Fund for Nature shows.

Japan's 72 percent agreement rate compares with 91 percent in Myanmar, 80 percent in Hong Kong, 79 percent in Thailand and 73 percent in Vietnam, according to the WWF survey, which queried 1,000 people from each nation.

The group is better known as the World Wildlife Fund in certain countries.

72% in Japan see closure of unregulated meat markets as key to preventing pandemics, survey finds

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