Genetic Data Links Covid Origins To Raccoon Dogs At Wuhan Market
The findings, however, do not definitively prove that the virus jumped from Racoon dogs to humans or that they were the only mammals at the wet market which contracted the virus.
The genetic evidence sequenced by scientists from Europe, North America, and Australia, is based on raw data of swabs taken from the market, which was quietly uploaded to a global database by researchers affiliated to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention last week. The raw data eventually was removed from the database known as GISAID after the international scientists sequencing the genomic data reached out to the Chinese scientists who uploaded it and offered to collaborate, theThese findings are likely to add more credence to the argument that the Covid-19 pandemic had a natural origin and likely linked to illegal wildlife trade in China’s wet markets. Last month,that the U.S.
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