The raccoon dogs came from central China, near Wuhan, where close relatives of the pandemic virus have never been found.

“I’m betting raccoon dog,” he said. Holmes had seen raccoon dogs at the Huanan market when he travelled to Wuhan in 2014. But part of the reason that raccoon dogs top the list of suspects is ...

Police in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, recently introduced a new Corgi police dog named Tu Bao, following the debut of China's first Corgi police dog Fu Zai in East China's Shandong ...

"Wuhan labs performed research that placed them ... More recently, in September 2024, a study published in Cell identified raccoon dogs, palm civets, Amur hedgehogs, and bamboo rats at the market.

Another animal with a raccoon-like face, the raccoon dog has long hair and is related to dogs and foxes. It too featured in the survey of Wuhan’s markets and has been the subject of recent ...

On a visit to Wuhan, a shopping mall of 11 million people ... being sold for food. But it was the raccoon dogs that made him take out his cell phone to capture reality. As one of the world's ...