Australian Geographic

PERFECT STORM FOR PANDEMICS

CIENTISTS AND WORLD Health Organization officials have been trying to control the COVID pandemic while attempting to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for it. Where did it come from? And when did it first pass to humans? So far, they believe this most likely occurred in China in a market or farm trading in exotic animals, where many

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