The Wuhan coronavirus is believed to have originated from a market that sold wild animals.
Huanan Seafood Market
“It was well-known for selling lots of weird, live animals,” says James, an English teacher who for five years lived a few hundred feet from the market, and who asks TIME to only use one name due to the sensitively of the situation. “So nobody was surprised at all when it emerged that the virus might have come from an unusual animal.”
As Wuhan coronavirus infection rates soar to more than 830 people across more than half a dozen nations—causing 26 deaths and leading to the unprecedented lockdown of—researchers are examining China’s penchant for consuming wild animals and whether that ultimately played a role in the outbreak.
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