Skip to content
Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Primary Menu Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us
  • Featured

Study Says COVID-19 Pandemic Originated In Wuhan Market Animals

Mar 2, 2022 | Pratirodh Bureau

FILE PHOTO: A January 2020 photo shows health workers checking on an elderly man who collapsed and died on a street in Wuhan, China (AFP)

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, two new studies suggest.

The first study used spatial analysis to show that the earliest known COVID-19 cases, diagnosed in December 2019, were centered on the Wuhan market.

The researchers found that environmental samples that tested positive for the virus were strongly associated with the vendors selling live animals.

“We used the maps in the WHO mission’s report on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 to extract latitude and longitude for most of the known COVID-19 cases from Wuhan with symptom onset in December 2019,” Michael Worobey, a professor at the University of Arizona, US, tweeted.

“We found that cases in December were both nearer to, and more centered on, the Huanan market than could be expected. Its epicenter was at the market,” said Worobey, who was the author of both the research papers.

A second study found that the two major viral lineages were the result of at least two events in which the virus jumped from animals to humans.

The first transmission most likely happened in late November or early December 2019, and the other lineage was probably introduced within weeks of the first event, the researchers said.

These findings define the narrow window between when SARS-CoV-2 first jumped into humans and when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, they said.

“As with SARS-CoV-1 in 2002 and 2003, SARS-CoV-2 emergence likely resulted from multiple zoonotic events,” the authors wrote in the second research paper.

The yet-to-be peer-reviewed studies, however, could not identify an animal at the market that spread the virus to humans.

“We show that, contrary to what some may have believed, wished to believe or asserted, live mammals susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 were present at the Huanan market in the crucial months of November and December 2019,” he added.

The findings support a report published last year in The Lancet journal which was compiled by two dozen biologists, ecologists, epidemiologists, physicians, public health experts and veterinarians from around the world.

The report had concluded that there was no scientifically validated evidence to support the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China, and that peer-reviewed studies strongly suggest that the virus evolved in nature.

Tags: china, COVID-19, Huanan Seafood Market, Pratirodh, SARS-COV-2 virus

Continue Reading

Previous Biden Says Putin ‘Has No Idea What’s Coming’
Next Philosophy Caused Our Environmental Mess & Can Fix It Too

More Stories

  • Featured

PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress

8 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation

14 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change

15 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress
  • Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation
  • Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change
  • Instead Of ‘Achhe Din’, Days Of Debt Arrived: Cong’s Dig At Modi Govt
  • A Song Of Rock And Ice
  • Access & Benefit Sharing Regulations Impinge On Rights Of Local Communities
  • Making Cuts In Implementation Of MGNREGA A Crime Against Constitution
  • Tiger Death Highlights Strained Human-Wildlife Interactions In Assam
  • Scientists And Monks Perform Last Rites For A Himalayan Glacier
  • Bihar Yearning For Change But The Election Is Wide Open
  • Shipwreck Spills Oil, Plastic & Legal Loopholes
  • As India’s Groundwater Runs Dry, The Calls For Reform Grow
  • ‘US Invite To Pak Army Chief Huge Diplomatic Setback For India’
  • Politics Based On Grievance Has A Long And Violent History In America
  • How Birds Are Taking A Hit From Microplastics Contamination
  • Kharge Reviews 11 Yrs Of NDA Govt, Says PM Made 33 Mistakes
  • Upholding The Law, SC Halts Amnesties For EIA Violators, Jolts Industry
  • Using Indian Languages When Reporting About The Environment
  • ‘Maximum Boasts, Minimum Achievements’: Congress Attacks Shah
  • On Navigating Privacy And Transparency In The Digital Age

Search

Main Links

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us

Related Stroy

  • Featured

PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress

8 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation

14 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change

15 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Instead Of ‘Achhe Din’, Days Of Debt Arrived: Cong’s Dig At Modi Govt

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

A Song Of Rock And Ice

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress
  • Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation
  • Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change
  • Instead Of ‘Achhe Din’, Days Of Debt Arrived: Cong’s Dig At Modi Govt
  • A Song Of Rock And Ice
Copyright © All rights reserved. | CoverNews by AF themes.