The World Heath Organization is calling for transparency from China after data with clues that could help determine the origin of COVID-19 was suddenly pulled offline.
Before the data's sudden disappearance, a team of international virus experts was able to download and begin to analyze it. According to the researchers, the new information pointed toward the idea that the pandemic may have started in a Wuhan seafood market, where illegally traded raccoon dogs infected humans with the virus.
"There’s a good chance that the animals that deposited that DNA also deposited the virus," Stephen Goldstein, a virologist at the University of Utah who helped analyze the data, told the Associated Press."If you were to go and do environmental sampling in the aftermath of a zoonotic spillover event … this is basically exactly what you would expect to find."
Members of the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.
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