In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerve

Officials are also tracking unspecified products of the same batch as the softshell turtles that have been shipped elsewhere. - AFP

BEIJING (Reuters): Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has struck a sensitive nerve with ordinary Chinese people, with some relating it to Covid-19.

The food market where samples from softshell turtles tested positive of the pathogen capable of causing cholera has been disinfected, local authorities said late on Thursday (July 14).