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SARS Ban Puts Limited Dent in Chinese Game Trade

Chinese epidemiologists believe SARS may have reached humans through food handlers who prepared wild game for restaurant use in southern China. An official ban has put a dent in wild animal trade, but has not completely wiped out black-market operations. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.

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Rob Gifford is the NPR foreign correspondent based in Shanghai.