That is mind-boggling.” Early in the outbreak, as word spread of an unusual respiratory illness in Wuhan, officials closed the Huanan market. It was cleaned and all animals were removed.

Using different analytical approaches, both papers identify Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market as the epicenter of the pandemic that has since killed more than 6.4 million people worldwide.

The coronavirus pandemic began in separate viral spillovers — at least two but perhaps as many as two dozen — from live animals sold and butchered in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in ...

A new analysis of genetic material gathered from a live-animal market in Wuhan in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic strengthens the case that the outbreak originated there when the ...

The coronavirus that has disrupted the world for almost three years came from a Wuhan market, according to two studies published Tuesday. Both papers sought to find the origins of SARS-CoV-2 ...

An analysis of genetic samples taken from the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, has identified a shortlist of wild animals being sold there that were the most likely source of the virus that ...

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new study’s authors ...

New studies conclude the virus first emerged from a live-animal market in Wuhan, China. One of the authors of a study, Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and ...

Researchers had found genetic evidence that raccoon dogs, an exotic species known to be susceptible to the virus, were among the animals for sale at the wet market in Wuhan, China, where the ...

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new study's authors ...

The analysis looked at meta genomic RN *** data taken from the stalls of captive animals at *** wet market in Wuhan before it was shuttered. The animals had already been removed when the samples ...