China’s Sub-Western Health Practices

Twelve days ago COTTonLINE wrote about China's "cultural indifference to microorganisms" and called China "an enormous Petri dish." At today's Instapundit, guest blogger Stephen Green writes:

We once might have smugly laughed off China’s wet markets as a Third World aberration, a medieval leftover, somehow still lingering around as a quaint vestigial bit of Chinese culture in a rapidly developing country. What we’ve learned in recent months however is that those wet markets are an even more serious security risk than Osama bin Laden looking for American flying schools from his computer in a secret location somewhere in Afghanistan. The viral threat emanating from China’s sub-Western health practices has at least an outside chance of killing more American civilians than soldiers have died in all of our wars.

COTTonLINE is happy to see others picking up this thread. The DrsC have repeatedly seen these risky practices in person, most recently in booming Shanghai ... they are no joke.