In China’s Wuhan, Cholera-Causing Bacteria in Turtles Strikes Nerve

Buildings are seen at sunset, almost a year after the global outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on Dec. 12, 2020. Aly Song/Reuters

BEIJING—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.