Many of the initial cases of the virus came up around the market and by the end of 2019, Wuhan hospitals saw dozens of cases of what was then called viral pneumonia. Scientists in China at the ...

of the Lab Animal Research Center at the Hubei University of Chinese Medicine in Wuhan, conducted monthly surveys of all 17 wet market shops in the city selling live wild animals for food and pets.

The China coronavirus which has now infected more than 500 people and killed 25 originated from a wet market in Wuhan. The market was a smorgasbord of exotic wildlife, ranging from wolf pups to ...

SINGAPORE--The first known COVID-19 case was a market vendor in the Chinese city of Wuhan, not an accountant ... and a major source of tension between China and the United States.

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market ... were (at the market) … were from a sub-species that circulates more in southern parts of China,” said Worobey ...