Hill September 19, 2024
A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first cases of the disease were identified.
The paper, published Thursday in the scientific journal Cell, builds off preliminary research released last year that pointed to a raccoon dog as a possible host transmitter of the disease to humans.
One origin theory of the COVID-19 pandemic is that an animal infected with the virus passed it on to humans at the Huanan seafood market in late 2019.
Thursday’s paper provides more evidence that animal spillover may have been responsible for the pandemic, although it cannot conclusively rule out the theory that humans introduced the virus...
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