No Touching, Buying and Eating of Wild Animals
Wild animals refer to all kinds of animals that live in a natural environment without artificial rearing. Many wild animals carry multiple viruses that can be transmitted to humans through contact. Viruses like AIDS, Lyme disease, Ebola virus, Hendra virus, monkey pox, SARS, MERS, and novel coronavirus can spread to humans through wild animals.
China promulgated the Law on the Protection of Wildlife in 1988, which prohibits the sale, purchase and utilization of wildlife that are under special state protection and their products, and prohibits the production and sale of food made of wildlife that are under special state protection and their products, or of food made of wildlife that are not under special state protection and their products without proof of legal source.
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the prominent problem of eating wild animals and the huge potential dangers to public health have aroused wide concerns. On February 24, the 16th plenary meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress decided to thoroughly ban illegal wildlife trade and break the bad habit of eating wild animals, so as to effectively guarantee the safety of the people's lives. This decision provided strong legislative guarantee to safeguard public health and ecological security and to protect people's lives and health. For the sake of human health, people must not touch, hunt, sell, buy, process, or eat wild animals.
不接触、购买和食用野生动物
野生动物是指所有非经人工饲养而生活于自然环境下的各种动物。许多野生动物带有多种病毒,如果人与之接触,可能将病毒传播给人类。如艾滋病、莱姆病、埃博拉病毒、亨德拉病毒、猴痘、SARS、MERS以及新冠病毒等,都是通过野生动物传播到人类。
中国早在1988年就颁布了《中华人民共和国野生动物保护法》,规定禁止出售、购买、利用国家重点保护野生动物及其制品,禁止生产、经营使用国家重点保护野生动物及其制品制作的食品,或者使用没有合法来源证明的非国家重点保护野生动物及其制品制作的食品。
新冠肺炎疫情发生以来,滥食野生动物的突出问题及其对公共卫生安全构成的巨大隐患,引起社会广泛关注。2020年2月24日,第十三届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第十六次全体会议通过全面禁止非法野生动物交易、革除滥食野生动物陋习、切实保障人民群众生命安全的决定,为维护公共卫生安全和生态安全,保障人民群众生命健康安全提供有力的立法保障。为了人类健康,个人不要接触、捕猎、贩卖、购买、加工、食用野生动物。
