Wildlife Trade in Wuhan Most 'Likely' , Pathway For COVID Transfer To Humans, , WHO Reports.<br />The World Health Organization (WHO) <br />is expected to release its report about the <br />origins of the coronavirus in humans on Tuesday.<br />According to one of the researchers, <br />the report is made up of "multiple hundred pages, <br />with lots of data, lots of new facts and information.".<br />The massive Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market <br />is thought to be at the center of how the virus <br />jumped from animals into humans.<br />In addition to seafood, WHO investigators <br />discovered that "wildlife and wildlife products, <br />whole carcasses of animals and live animals <br />of different types" were sold at the market.<br />So there was definitely a pathway that takes animals coming into that market from all over China, including the places where the nearest relatives of SARS-CoV-2 have been found in bats, Peter Daszak, WHO Team, via CNN.<br />What we found, I think, is pretty important evidence of a way the virus could have emerged from rural China into a big city like Wuhan and led to <br />an outbreak, Peter Daszak, WHO Team, via CNN.<br />We considered this likely to very likely, as a way that this virus would have emerged, Peter Daszak, WHO Team, via CNN.<br />The WHO report has been controversial <br />from the start, receiving criticism from officials <br />in Beijing for possible politicization.<br />The global science community has also questioned the independence of the study
