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

Genetic evidence from a new report suggests the coronavirus pandemic most likely spilled over from animals in the Wuhan ...

It is beyond “reasonable doubt” that the Covid-19 pandemic originated in a Chinese animal market, a new scientific study has ...

A new genetic analysis looks at species of animals present at the Wuhan market that may have spread COVID-19 to people.

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

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood Market supports hypothesis that the COVID pandemic spread from animals there.

“It’s one of the most important data sets on the early pandemic and on the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” says Florence Débarre, an ...

A University of Arizona researcher was part of a study strongly linking pandemic origin to the seafood market in China.

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 ...

A new study identifies raccoon dogs, civet cats, and bamboo rats as potential intermediate hosts for COVID-19 at Wuhan's ...