China will not take part in UN's wildlife survey for pandemic controls, source says

Frogs are displayed for sale at a wet market in Shanghai on April 29, 2020.HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images China is not participating in a United Nations project to survey Asian wet markets and other facilities at high risk of spreading infectious diseases from wild animals to humans, despite long-running talks with Beijing, a UN official told Reuters. China's hesitancy to join the UN project involving other Asian nations may compound frustration by global researchers who have been pressing Beijing to share information about the origins of COVID-19, as they seek to prevent future pandemics due to zoonotic, or animal-to-human, disease transmission….