Quoted from PinRob:China has to drastically change the way they trade and consume wild animals. If not then they should pay the bills associated with the mutated viruses that come about from their insalubrious markets.
I believe they did add some regulations on the exotic animal meat trade after the SARS outbreak, but as time passed and they saw the money that was not being made from selling the exotic meats...they went lax on enforcement and I believe they may have even dialed some of the regulations back.