With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious.

Two American virologists with former ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) argue that the lab’s recent research poses unacceptable risks — five years after the worst pandemic in a ...

The Chinese city of Wuhan became famous across the globe in 2020 as the epicentre of the deadly Covid-19 outbreak, which shut down much of the world and claimed millions of lives. Five years on ...

The epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak was in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Five years on, NPR returns to get a sense of what's changed — and what hasn't.

The coronavirus pandemic began in separate viral spillovers from live animals sold and butchered in late 2019 in a Wuhan, China, seafood market, according to two papers published Tuesday in the ...

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak nearly three years ago and where thousands died, residents cautiously greeted a relaxation of lockdown measures by authorities ...

A vehicle belonging to the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drives past the shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020 — the day that the Wuhan health ...

A vehicle belonging to the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drives past the shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market on Jan. 11, 2020 — the day that the Wuhan health commission reported ...