Nyctereutes procyonoides (common raccoon dog)

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Introduction

common raccoon dog

Epidemiology

  • genetic sequences collected from the Wuhan market shows that raccoon dogs may have been carrying & shedding SARS-CoV2 at the end of 2019[2]

* see SARS-CoV2 epidemiology - Origins & Spread of SARS-CoV2

More general terms

References

  1. Wikipedia: Common raccoon dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_raccoon_dog
  2. 2.0 2.1 Wu KJ The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic. A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic's origin to raccoon dogs. The Atlantic. March 16, 2023 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/