of the Lab Animal Research Center at the Hubei University of Chinese Medicine in Wuhan, conducted monthly surveys of all 17 wet market shops in the city selling live wild animals for food and pets.

The study, which has not been peer reviewed or published yet, argues that there is no support for the theory that COVID escaped from the Wuhan lab A new pair of studies on the coronavirus outbreak ...

The China coronavirus which has now infected more than 500 people and killed 25 originated from a wet market in Wuhan. The market was a smorgasbord of exotic ... from a wild animal sold there.

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new study’s authors ...

Two of the major competing theories center around the virus either having leaked from a research lab, or that it jumped from ...

An animal market in Wuhan is where it's believed COVID-19 first made the leap from animal to human. Indonesia's Langowan market is well known for its exotic meats like snake, lizard, rats ...

Initial theories suggested that it jumped to humans from exotic animals in a Wuhan 'wet market.' Others have suggested, so far without proof, that the pathogen may have escaped from the Wuhan ...