One of the first Wuhan researchers reportedly sickened with Covid in fall 2019, Ben Hu, was getting U.S. financial support for risky gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, according to ...

A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first cases of the disease were identified. The pap… ...

Scientists say there is "compelling evidence" that Wuhan's Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak. Two peer-reviewed studies published on Tuesday re-examine ...

The claim Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory dates from early in the pandemic. Here's what we know.

Researchers analyzed genetic data from samples taken at the Wuhan market. A new report suggests the virus that causes COVID-19 may be linked to raccoon dogs that were illegally being sold at a wet ...

Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have ...

Scientists again link covid pandemic origin to Wuhan market animals Genetic evidence from a new report suggests the coronavirus pandemic most likely spilled over from animals in the Wuhan market.

The Director of National Intelligence will have 90 days to release a report on de-classified information on the origin of Covid-19 to Congress, if signed by President Joe Biden.

A new analysis of genetic material gathered from a live-animal market in Wuhan in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic strengthens the case that the outbreak originated there when the ...

One origin theory of the COVID-19 pandemic is that an animal infected with the virus passed it on to humans at the Huanan seafood market in late 2019.

Scientists say there is "compelling evidence" that Wuhan's Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak.