It has genetic and molecular results that have been kept on the animal market that was the first place that was suspected.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has made an umpteenth appeal for China to share all the scientific information useful to determine the origin of the covid-19 pandemic, after learning that has genetic and molecular results that has been saved on the animal market which was the first place that was suspected.
The information, from the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) of China, was uploaded to a scientific platform open access and discovered by European experts who analyzed it and reported their results to the WHO, but subsequently all that data was deleted from the platform.
The WHO has indicated that shortly after finding out it asked the Chinese authorities to make the information available, which has not yet happened.
Although it has clarified that these data do not allow to draw a conclusion final about how the pandemic startedbut they constitute “an important piece to get closer to an answer”.
Last year, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona (United States) confirmed that live animals sold in the wholesale seafood market de Huanan, en WuhanHubei province (China), were the probable origin of the pandemic of Covid-19.
Led by the university’s virus evolution expert, Michael Worobey, international teams of researchers have traced the start of the pandemic to the Wuhan market. Their findings were published in two articles in the journal Science.
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