The report in Science magazines shows the earliest cases were linked to bats, foxes and other live animals infected with the virus and sold in the market
Snacks sold at a street market in Wuhan, China. Picture: REUTERS/ALY SONG
This is an important study because the origin of the disease, which to date has officially killed 6.4-million people but probably far more in reality, has been used as a political football.
“We have convincingly shown that the wild animal sales at the Huanan market in Wuhan are implicated in the first human cases of the disease.”
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