The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

China on Sunday ordered a temporary ban on the trade in wild animals as the country ... price list for one of the animal-trading businesses at the Wuhan market that emerged online last week.

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.

China's top legislature said it will immediately ban the trade ... exposure to a wildlife market in Hubei's provincial capital Wuhan, where bats, snakes, civets and other animals were sold.

Early in the outbreak, as word spread of an unusual respiratory illness in Wuhan, officials closed the Huanan market. It was ...

For more than two months, the city of Wuhan, China, was sealed off from ... These markets are where wild animals are slaughtered and sold. “These markets are the cheapest points of sale and ...

“The ban should include not only wet markets ... a snake or bats and has been traced to a market in Wuhan known for selling wild animals for consumptions including dogs, turtles, bats, snakes ...

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new study’s authors ...