Fox News: Trump talks to Xi; Chinese scientists say a scaly anteater could be coronavirus host. https://www.foxnews.com/science/chinese-scientists-say-pangolin-is-possible-coronavirus-host
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> Thai customs police on Thursday unveiled a massive three-tonne cache of seized pangolin scales intended for Asia's lucrative wildlife markets, where feverish demand for the "Scaly anteater" has turned it into the most trafficked mammal on earth.
> The shy pangolin's brown scales are made of nothing more than keratin - the same substance as fingernails - but are highly prized in Vietnam and China where they are misleadingly touted as bearing medicinal properties.
> Soaring demand for the products has seen an estimated one million pangolins plucked from Asian and African forests over the past decade, shunting them onto the list of species at the highest risk of extinction.
> On Thursday, Thai police revealed nearly three tonnes of pangolin scales, packed into white bags, that had been seized from two air cargo hauls at Bangkok's main airport.
> "This is the biggest lot that we have seized," Police Major General Worapong Thongpaiboon, acting commander of the Natural Resources and Environment Crime Division, told AFP. Thailand's CITES director said the final destination was almost certainly intended to be China or Vietnam, where the price of pangolin scales runs around $1,700 per kilo.
> "After clean and dry the scales they fry and mix them with traditional medicine that they believe cure cancer and enhance sexual performance," Somkiat Soontonpitakkool told AFP. There is no peer-reviewed scientific evidence to support any medicinal properties for pangolin scales.
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