New data supports animal market origins of COVID-19 pandemic

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The Hunan Seafood Wholesale wet market in Wuhan, China, has long been considered the most likely source of the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. That theory is now supported by a new study analyzing more than 800 samples collected in and around the market in January 2020 as the pandemic began. Advertisement Those samples show that animal species known to carry the COVID coronavirus were present in the market, according to results published Wednesday in the journal Cell . "This

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