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American, European, Arabs do routinely buy these exotic animals to keep them as pets.

But most of these are used for traditional Chinese medicine.

Komodo dragons would seem to be very poor choices as pets. Fast, aggressive, not very affectionate, and their bites can cause major septic problems: http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,133163,00.h...

Seems like a series of really dumb choices leading up to that incident.

I dont think rich people want to cuddle a komodo, they just want it to impress their other rich friends.

I can't find any reports of Komodo dragons being used in Chinese medicine.

I can find news reports from 2017 of discoveries that compounds found in Komodo blood could have medical applications as an antibiotic, but I can find no mentions of it having started to be used in Chinese medicine.

Can you point to any evidence for this?

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