Inside Nigeria's wet markets: Shocking footage reveals pangolins, sea turtles and monkeys being sold in Lagos both dead and alive - raising fears the next virus could come from Africa

Shocking footage seen by MailOnline reveals the appalling state of Nigerian wet markets which have the potential to cause future disease outbreaks in humans.

Myriad animals including pangolins, primates and sea turtles are held — both dead and alive — in confined spaces while workers fail to sanitise surfaces or tools and do not wear appropriate PPE, including gloves.

Video also shows many of the animals being abused before they are slaughtered; photographic evidence reveals vendors boiling animals including pangolins, dogs and manatees while they are still alive.

WildatLife, a charity working on the ground in Nigeria, visited Oluwu fish market in Epe, 55 miles east of Lagos.

The volunteers secretly recorded conditions at the market where vendors handle, butcher and sell live and dead animals.

'Wet markets like Oluwo Fish Market located in Nigeria, facilitate and heavily contribute to the practice of illicit wildlife trade and in turn, this practice can lead to the spread of zoonotic diseases,' WildatLife told MailOnline.

'Transportation of animals for wildlife trade at these markets enables the spread of diseases from animals to other animals and pose a threat to human health.'

Dozens of primates can be seen in the footage stuck in small cages while snakes, crocodiles, duikers, sea turtles, manatees, rodents and parakeets are also present.

'All animals are infected with something and only some are infectious to humans,' Professor Bennett explains.

'Having more animals in the same space and in close contact with each other makes it more likely something will emerge in humans.

'The more biodiverse an area/country is (in the tropics for example), the higher risk there is that something is going to emerge.

'There is an almost 100 per cent risk of something emerging in humans, but we can't predict where that will be or what that will be.'

It is thought SARS-CoV-2 jumped from a bat and into an intermediate species, potentially a pangolin, where it then evolved to be able to infect humans.

It is possible this intermediate animal would have then passed the virus on to a human who visited the market. If the transient host was indeed a pangolin, this could have happened when the infected pangolin's scales were ingested as a medicine or its meat was consumed.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9275175/Inside-Nigerias-wet-markets-source-future-zoonotic-diseases.html#comments

I had no idea there was a market like this in Lagos state.

This is just rubbish news. Covid-19 did not jump from any animal. It was just an experiment gone bad. No use that one compare our Nigerian meat market

Hnnm
My brother people dey chop Oo

Something must kill a man sha....

Oyibo and their mumu write up again. Go do your research. I just pray WHO will come out clean with their findings.

Bubu is a terrorist

Mehn, what for? Is there bush in Lagos?


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They have started

We don dey chop bush meat for Africa since forever. We never made the entire planet sick. Go and do your investigative journalism in China

It's what it's

Baby Journalist

Keep it up.. lol

Nigerians are eating almost everything that moves, even rats and lizards what do u expect

Chai! See how they have roasted that 404 doggie so tey baba dey threaten us from the other side of life.

Wuhan pt. 2

I thought WHO said the virus did emerge from Wuhan,or China,
i do not justify this act but you see Ebola, corona,sars HIV and the likes,the world power or order never tell us wetin dey sup,
all the ammunition and bio-weapons dem dey build,one day go be one day

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They don’t need to go to no “wet” market...
They should just come here to see what NLers are killing and eating.
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Abeg I no know where the market dey for Lagos wu get d direction I wan take my Chinese friend to the place....

NAwa oo.. c how terrified d monkey looks sef.

It's not like it's new, so why do u think the new virus will emanate from Africa?

Anyways Buhari must go

Lalasticlala sef

Coro kee you there.

I was expecting this junk journalism to come from an oyinbo news agency.

They want to release another virus in Africa and blame it on bush meat.

As much as don't support or consume bush meat, our fathers have been eating bushmeat for centuries and no virus or bacteria from it. They burn it before eating and boil it or roast it well. So no stupid virus or bacteria can survive in it.

FYI, the way they prepared those animals in those pictures are basically how we prepare all the animals we eat; goat, ram, chicken etc. even cow and camel.

Useless people shaa want to give black people bad name.

una say make elders for this country nor to dy receive bush meat as part of dairy wy people day pay if dm wanna marry ?? or make dm nor dy use bush meat prepare food for them during festivities. make una becafuo make dm nor swear for una

look at all this rubbish people are eating. i think i need to be a vegetarian. fork this shit

Make una come deposite virus for Nigeria na and claim it comes from the market. Nonesense. This is one of the problems of formal education, fanatics of it gets easily brain wash.

So they could only get 3 pictures from these so called big wet market.

You will be shocked that that so called wet market is just one small shop like that but with your camera, your writeup and the type of online media this news is printed on, in this case, dailymail with massive following can turn something of insignificant to become significant in a matter of hours, then come the deceiving headlines to cause panic and fear.

Are they trying to tell us that they will soon poison that small shop with their man made viruses so that they can infect people living there and then make a vaccine to make money

Customer spotted

Shelumiel:
This is just rubbish news. Covid-19 did not jump from any animal. It was just an experiment gone bad. No use that one compare our Nigerian meat market