Whether the spread of disease is related to wildlife trade -- correlation analysis based on world wildlife trade data

Abstract

The wild animal market is suspected to be the source of the current epidemic and the SARS epidemic in 2002, and the consumption of wild meat is considered to be a source of Ebola virus in Africa. In order to study whether the spread of disease is related to wildlife trade, this paper analyzes the wildlife trade volume in the year of SARS and COVID-19 outbreak from the perspective of time. The results show that the trade volume of scientific animals has increased significantly in the 2003 and 2020. From the biological point of view, we searched for some famous diseases and combined the annual epidemic data with the transaction volume of laboratory monkey. Through the analysis of the line chart, we concluded that the transaction volume of laboratory monkey has a certain correlation with the major epidemic, and then extended the conclusion that there is a certain relationship between the wildlife trade and the major infectious disease epidemic.