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Biology
New genetic analysis of animals farmed at the 2019 Wuhan market may help shed light on origins of COVID-19
An elderly patient receives an intravenous drip while on a ventilator in a hallway at an emergency ward in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong, File Scientists investigating the origins of COVID-19 are zeroing in on a list of animals that may have played a role in the disease’s spread to humans, in the hope that the…
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Biology
Genetic tracing at South China Seafood Market further supports animal origin of COVID-19
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new international collaborative study has published a list of wild animal species available in markets where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, likely emerged in late 2019. The study is based on a new analysis of metatranscriptomics data published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data came from…
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