Market in China’s Wuhan likely origin of COVID-19 outbreak — study

The latest twit by  Reuters on Twitter states, 

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First  known Covid-19 Case Was A Vendor In  Wuhan Animal Market (China), Reveals  the Latest Study ( published 18/11/2021)

The report mentioned that most early symptomatic cases were linked to the Wuhan animal market and it provided strong evidence of a live-animal market origin of the pandemic.

A new review of early Covid-19 cases published  in the journal Science will revive the debate over how the pandemic began.

The new analysis suggests that the first known  Covid patient s was a vendor in a large Wuhan animal market, not an accountant who lived many miles from it.

The  new report states,

Despite assertions to the contrary (1), it is now clear that live mammals susceptible to coronaviruses, including raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides), were sold at Huanan Market and three other live-animal markets in Wuhan before the pandemic (23). Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs) were found in raccoon dogs during the SARS outbreak, which was facilitated by animal-to-human contact in live-animal markets in China.

A joint study of China and the World Health Organization (WHO) this year had ruled out the theory that covid-19 originated in a laboratory pointing out that the most likely hypothesis was that it infected humans naturally, probably via the wildlife trade (Reuters).

Source: journal Science (18/11/2021)Reuters on Twitter (19/11/2021)

Last Updated on 19.11.2021 by iskova