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so there is really a track record of coronaviruses doing this, so that is why i think it is really still the most likely explanation. my name is dominic dwyer. i m a medical virologist and infectious diseases specialist. and i have worked in public health virology for many years. professor dwyer agrees that all the current evidence points to a natural animal spill over. wild animals and farmed animals were for sale in the markets in wuhan before the outbreak. so all of these piece by piece lean towards the animal hypothesis. but it s important to remember that you don t necessarily get a single piece of
infectious diseases specialist. and i have worked in public health virology for many years. professor dwyer agrees that all the current evidence points to a natural animal spill over. wild animals and farmed animals were for sale in the markets in wuhan before the outbreak. so all of these piece by piece lean towards the animal hypothesis. but it s important to remember that you don t necessarily get a single piece of definitive evidence. it really is often about building block by block to get there. almost all of the scientist i have been in touch with agreed that based on the evidence available so far, an animal spill over is the most likely cause of the pandemic. but questions also remain over whether that spill over may have happened by accident at a world leading coronavirus
where sars cov 2 may have spilled over from animals. there is also the fact this has happened a number of times before, most notably with the stars outbreak in china in 2003, and middle east respiratory syndrome whichjumped into camels and then humans in saudi arabia. we have seen similar events spill over events, but there also molecular evidence from information studies that at least three of the four seasonal coronaviruses, if not all of them, really originated from the animal world. so there is really a track record of coronaviruses doing this, so that is why i think it is really still the most likely explanation. my name is dominic dwyer. i am a medical virologist and