A wet market in Wuhan, China, called the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, is believed to be the source of COVID-19. Somewhat akin to farmer’s markets and found around the world, ...

The troubling history of wet markets. Even before COVID-19, Huanan and other wet markets were notorious public-health threats because of their potential as breeding grounds for new pathogens.

The journal Science and The Atlantic magazine published accounts of a recent discovery of the DNA sequence from a wild animal likely infected with SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan wet market in Wuhan, the ...

An animal sold at a Wuhan wet market, such as a raccoon dog, ... The Huanan market has long been suspected as the point of origin for SARS-CoV-2. W. Ian Lipkin, ...

Dr. Florence Débarre and colleagues have released their full report analyzing genetic sequences from Huanan wet market that showed wild-animal DNA mixed with SARS-CoV-2 RNA.

Scientists have provided more evidence to substantiate the theory that the Huanan market in Wuhan, China, was the early epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic, finding other alternative scenarios ...

SARS, COVID-19 and Ebola all originated in "the most dangerous types of wet market," one researcher says. ... And curiously, the Huanan market wasn't the first of its kind to help spur a pandemic.

“Our speculation is we think the Wuhan Huanan wet market is not the origin,” said Lo Yi-Chun, the deputy director general of Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control.

When Covid-19 emerged, many of the first cases were linked to the Huanan "wet market" in Wuhan, where live wild animals were sold for meat.

A vehicle belonging to the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drives past the shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020 — the day that the Wuhan health ...

In this latest outbreak, the Huanan market was one of only four wet markets in all of Wuhan that has consistently been documented selling an array of live, coronavirus-susceptible wildlife; the ...