ABC News
March 23, 2023
Hunting COVID's origins: New intelligence and scientific reports shift debate
Three years after COVID-19 forced a worldwide shutdown, the origins of the virus that has claimed upwards of 7 million lives remain the source of questions for some. Photos taken in 2014 at a market in Wuhan, China show raccoon dogs in cages for sale alongside poultry, rodents and snakes in the same area of the market where positive samples of COVID-19 would be found in 2020. "What we have here is evidence from the actual time and place where we think the pandemic started, in the form of swabs from surfaces, things like cages, carts used to move animals, a feather or hair remover," said University of Arizona professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Michael Worobey.