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An underwater paradise in the remote Pacific Ocean that includes the sea around Caroline Island, seen here, will be protected—thanks in part to National Geographic’s Pristine Seas project. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN SKERRY
July 24, 2020
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From a Wuhan, China, “wet market” where freshly butchered meat and live wild animals are sold for food and medicine, the virus likely was transmitted in late 2019 via wildlife to humans. And in a matter of months, COVID-19 has felled hundreds of thousands of Homo sapiens, Earth’s preeminent predator...People have been acquiring harmful viruses and bacteria from contact with animals in the wild for millennia. 

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