A two-person team from the World Health Organization is traveling to China to address the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />But according to Science Magazine, the epidemiologist and animal health expert are unlikely to come home with answers.<br />The mystery of the virus’ origins has become a political powder keg and the subject of countless conspiracy theories.<br />Chinese officials have reported conducting tests for SARS-CoV-2 at the Wuhan seafood market but what they found remains sketchy.<br />Other studies have linked SARS-CoV-2 to a coronavirus found in pangolins, an endangered species that eats ants.<br />However, there’s no evidence pangolins or their scales—used in traditional Chinese medicine—were sold at the market.<br />Some more fringe theories still suggest SARS-CoV-2 came from snakes, cometary debris, or a US Army lab.
