We don’t know exactly where the new coronavirus came from. One theory is that it went from bats to another animal to people. The missing link could be the pangolin — the scaly anteater is popular among smugglers. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports from Bangkok, the dark trade could be a “time bomb” for the next pandemic.
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