While research shows SARS-CoV-2 wasn't made in a lab, its emergence in the same city as the WIV has raised suspicions and ...

“It’s one of the most important data sets on the early pandemic and on the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” says Florence Débarre, an ...

Individuals with compromised immunity and persistent COVID-19 infections can harbor drug-resistant variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which have the potential to spread to the general population, ...

The following is a summary of “Real-time estimation of immunological responses against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants in the UK: a mathematical modelling study,” published in the September 2024 issue of ...

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus ...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the ...

The theory that COVID-19 originated from a human interacting with an infected animal at a local market in late 2019 is backed by "very strong evidence." In January of 2020, 800 samples of stalls and ...

A new study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The study is based on ...

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that ...

After an in-depth analysis of the genetic material from hundreds of swabs taken from the walls, floors, machines and drains ...

A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where ...

A new genetic analysis looks at species of animals present at the Wuhan market that may have spread COVID-19 to people.