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Raccoon dogs may have been linked to the pandemic. What are they?

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March 18, 2023 News from NPR, World

A raccoon dog looks out of its cage in a Chinese live animal market in January 2004. Raccoon dogs could have been an initial host for the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

The wild animals are more similar to foxes than to domesticated dogs. Data that suggested a link between raccoon dogs and the origins of the COVID pandemic was removed from an international database.

(Image credit: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

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