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Wall Street Journal: In hunt for Covid-19 origin, WHO team focuses on two animal types in China

Published Feb. 19, 2021. Updated Feb. 19 at 5:07 am

A fruit vendor wearing a face mask walks past the main entrance of the closed off Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan on Jan. 11, 2021, on the first anniversary of China confirming its first death from the Covid-19 coronavirus.

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World Health Organization investigators are honing their search for animals that could have spread the new coronavirus to humans, identifying two—ferret badgers and rabbits—that can carry the virus and were sold at a Chinese market where many early cases emerged.