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Although the first clusters of atypical pneumonia were reported in Wuhan, China, it doesn't necessarily mean it's where the COVID-19 disease crossed from animals into humans, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Monday (August 3). Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, said at a routine COVID-19 briefing on Monday, that a much more "extensive retrospective epidemiological study" should be taken to fully understand the links between the cases. He stressed the need to start studies on the first reported human clusters to systematically look for the "first signal at which the animal-human...
