New research suggests industrial livestock, not wet markets, might be origin of Covid-19

‘There is a growing body of evidence that points to a different origin story for Covid-19. We now know that none of the animals tested at the Wuhan seafood market tested positive and about a third of the initial set of reported cases in people in Wuhan from early December 2019 had no connection to the seafood market, including the first reported case. And we also now know, thanks to the leak of an official Chinese report to the South China Morning Post that the actual first known case of Covid-19 in Hubei was detected in mid-November, weeks before the cluster of cases connected to the Wuhan seafood market were reported.’

Two studies quoted in this article point to industrial farming of animals as the more probable cause, in particular that of pigs.

Read here (Grain, March 30, 2020)

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