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A new analysis of genetic material gathered from a live-animal market in Wuhan in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic strengthens the case that the outbreak originated there when the ...
After an in-depth analysis of the genetic material from hundreds of swabs taken from the walls, floors, machines and drains inside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China — a site ...
According to the researchers, swabs taken at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan—long suspected as the pandemic’s epicenter— show evidence of genetic material from raccoon dogs (animals that ...
The Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market (Chinese: 武汉华南海鲜批发市场), [1] [2] simply known as the Huanan Seafood Market [3] (Huanan means 'South China'), was a live animal and seafood market in Jianghan District, Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, in Central China. The market opened on 19 June 2002.
For the first phase, the WHO formed a team of ten researchers with expertise in virology, public health and animals to conduct a thorough study. [11] One of the team's tasks was to retrospectively ascertain what wildlife was being sold in local wet markets in Wuhan. [12]
An early locus of COVID-19 transmission was the Huanan live animal market, and even before the pandemic, the place was identified as a likely site for zoonosis (diseases hopping to humans from other species). There were over a thousand common raccoon dogs for sale in the market, and about nine thousand other animals. [38]
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In the 2002 outbreak in Guangdong, most living animals in the markets showed serological evidence of exposure to SARS-CoV-1. [70] Exterior of Huanan seafood market undergoing sterilization in March 2020. Many early cases were associated with the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan. [21]