After an in-depth analysis of the genetic material from hundreds of swabs taken from the walls, floors, machines and drains ...

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that ...

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus ...

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to ...

machines and drains inside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China — a site that’s been described as an epicenter of early spread of Covid-19 — scientists say they now know ...

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 ...

The theory that COVID-19 originated from a human interacting with an infected animal at a local market in late 2019 is backed by "very strong evidence." In January of 2020, 800 samples of stalls and ...

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November ... that circulates more in southern parts of China,” said Worobey, an evolutionary biologist ...