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wet market

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[wet mahr-kit] / ˈwɛt ˈmɑr kɪt /

noun

1. (especially in China and Southeast Asia) a usually open-air market selling perishable food, as meat, seafood, vegetables, and fruit, and often live animals slaughtered on-site.

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Origin of wet market

First recorded in 1975–80

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These risks include a Chernobyl-like or Chinese wet market accident—a mass disruption event in a form we might not even be able to visualize right now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Restaurant worker Dong went to a wet market in central Beijing around lunchtime on Thursday, but did not buy anything.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023

Those who support the leak theory have noted the WIV is just 40 minutes from the Huanan wet market, where the first cluster of Covid infections emerged late in 2019.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023

China has consistently denied that the virus leaked from a lab, and has stood by early conclusions that the virus transferred naturally from animals to humans, most likely at a wet market in Wuhan.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

It wasn't initially clear that raccoon dogs were even at the wet market in Wuhan until later evidence emerged in 2020 revealing the animals were illegally kept at the marketplace.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2023