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Raccoon dogs, a spaniel-size canine bred and sold in China both for their meat and luxurious fur, are one of the likeliest sources of the last 2½ years of human misery. A new study suggests these ...

While the debate continues about whether COVID-19 escaped from a biotech lab or emerged in a Wuhan wet market, a new study suggests the latter is much, much more likely. The research, led by an ...

An international team of scientists say they have found genetic data that links the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to raccoon dogs that were sold at a wet market in Wuhan, bolstering the theory of ...

Last year, Peter Daszak, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigative team that looked into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, told NPR that he believed the outbreak most likely ...

A devastating blow has been dealt to the claims by US right-wing politicians and media outlets that the COVID-19 pandemic is the product of a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, with a new ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci pushed the hypothesis that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan wet market rather than a Chinese government lab, despite doubts cast on the market possibility by scientists, ...

It’s not just rural farms. Urban animal markets are fertile grounds for viral transmission, experts say. By Apoorva Mandavilli Photographs by Juan Arredondo Hundreds of chickens are squeezed into rows ...

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