An analysis of environmental and animal samples for SARS-CoV-2 in the Huanan seafood market, Wuhan, China, in early 2020, detected the virus in environmental swabs but not in samples taken from animals, according to a study published in Nature on April 5. George F. Gao and colleagues from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who carried out the study …
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Raccoon dogs are seen at a cage in Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. International scientists who examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a Wuhan, China, market said they found suggestions the pandemic originated in raccoon dogs, not in a lab. Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon …
