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Eddie Holmes can still remember the exact moment he first learned about COVID-19.
The University of Sydney virologist said it was New Years Eve, 2019, when he received a news alert that China had notified the World Health Organization of a strange new virus. "It said four cases of an episode of pneumonia were found in a live animal market in Wuhan, China," he said. "It immediately rang alarm bells."
Professor Holmes told ABC News Daily the story jumped out because he had visited that very market, the Huanan seafood wholesale market, in 2014.
"While I was there, I noticed there were these live wildlife for sale, particularly raccoon dogs and … muskrats" he said. "I took the photographs because I thought to myself: 'God, that's, that's not quite right'.
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