Scientists believe they've uncovered the true origin of the Covid pandemic — and have rejected the popular theory that the virus was leaked from a laboratory. A major international study published ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and scientists have searched for the origins of the virus. After it emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, a lot of scrutiny was placed on a ...

An international team of scientists say they have found genetic data that links the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to raccoon dogs that were sold at a wet market in Wuhan, bolstering the theory of ...

Remember the raccoon dog? The adorable fox-like critter made headlines in the spring of 2023, when it was implicated in some preliminary research on the source of the virus that causes COVID-19.

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 ...

A journalist at Nature called me in 2017 with the news that China was opening a new Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in Wuhan, one designed to handle the most dangerous pathogens. He asked if I thought ...

Last year, Peter Daszak, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigative team that looked into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, told NPR that he believed the outbreak most likely ...

Raccoon dogs, a spaniel-size canine bred and sold in China both for their meat and luxurious fur, are one of the likeliest sources of the last 2½ years of human misery. A new study suggests these ...

Wuhan, China — “I get a shudder every time I drive past here,” says the taxi driver as he pulls over near the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China. The wet market—where live poultry and ...

Noel Celis / AFP via Getty Images Remember the raccoon dog? The adorable fox-like critter made headlines in the spring of 2023, when it was implicated in some preliminary research on the source of the ...