Wild animals sold on the southwestern side of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan were the most likely source of the COVID-19 outbreak, a team of 18 international scientists claim.
"However, this group of cases resided significantly closer to the market than those who worked there, indicating that they had been exposed to theThe Wuhan market had a range of live exotic animals on sale around the time of the first COVID-19 cases in humans.
The international research team mapped out exactly where in the Wuhan market the positive SARS-CoV-2 samples were taken and overlaid that with the locations where people were infected.Their spatial analysis found that positive surface samples concentrated in the southwest corner of the market, the same area where vendors were selling live mammals that can carry coronaviruses, including raccoon dogs, hog badgers, and red foxes.
Positive samples were taken from cages, carts, and freezers that were associated with the live mammal trade.
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