WHO slams China for withholding COVID-19 research

The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials Friday for withholding research that may link COVID 19 s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three years ago and why it is now missing.

Before the Chinese data disappeared, an international team of virus experts downloaded and began analyzing the research, which appeared online in January. They say it supports the idea that the epidemic could have started when raccoon dogs were infected with humans at a seafood market in Wuhan.

The gene sequences were removed from a scientific database when the experts offered to collaborate on the analysis with their Chinese counterparts.

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