As Eddie Holmes, an Australian virologist who studies emerging diseases, told the Guardian in May, “The key step is to determine what animals, particularly mammals, were present in the market ...

A major international study published today in Cell, insists that the virus did spread from a 'wet market' in Wuhan, China, and they have identified the animals behind the transmission to humans.

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Specifically, researchers show that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China was the “epicenter” of the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning where the virus crossed over from animal to human.

While the research bolsters the case that COVID-19 emerged from animals, it does not resolve the polarized and political debate over whether the virus instead emerged from a research lab in China.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and scientists have searched for the origins of the virus. After it emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, a lot of scrutiny was placed on a ...

China destroyed all animals and disinfected the wet market in January 2020 in order to prevent further spread, and destroyed evidence in the process, Worobey told CNN.

A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19's origin Share Updated: 7:45 PM PDT Sep 20, 2024 Infinite Scroll Enabled ...

Advertisement A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19's origin ... Updated: 9:45 PM CDT Sep 20, 2024 Editorial Standards ⓘ By MARIA CHENG AP Medical ...