Over the past few months, this hypothesis has flourished through coverage in the mainstream news media, shoring up the notion that COVID-19 is zoonotic — transmitted from a bat through another animal, possibly a pangolin or a dog, infecting humans in a market in China’s city of Wuhan.

Three of every four new or emerging infectious diseases originates in animals, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says that overall, animals have been the vector of more than 60 percent of infectious diseases.

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