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The origins of Covid-19 have long fueled social networks. Two studies have just been published in the journal Science, and conclude that the pandemic started in the market of Wuhan (China). Explanations.
Two years that it punctuates our lives. The mystery which surrounded the beginning of the covid-19 seems to be coming to an end. Two studies published on Tuesday July 26 in the prestigious journal Science point to the Wuhan market as the epicenter of the pandemic. Which excludes the hypothesis of a laboratory leak.
Strains of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, have been found on carts exclusively in the market area where live animals were sold such as toads and snakes. “This market served as an amplifier”, emphasizes Guillaume Acaz, a specialist in the evolution of genomes. Researchers also investigated the first 155 human cases of Covid that emerged in 2019 before the global spread. All lived near this market.
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