There is new evidence to support the raccoon dog theory as the most important intermediate host of Sars-CoV-2 on its way to humans. A French biologist has detected the new Coronavirus particularly frequently together with genetic material from the raccoon dog in samples from the notorious wild animal market in Wuhan from 2020. This is reported by Science magazine. Berlin virologist Christian Drosten has cited the 2021 fur industry as a very likely point of origin. In Hubei, raccoon dogs were bred for fur collars.
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