Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market

Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
武汉华南海鲜批发市场
Outside the market in March 2020, after its closure
LocationJianghan, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Coordinates30°37′11″N 114°15′27″E / 30.6196°N 114.2576°E / 30.6196; 114.2576
Opening date19 June 2002
Closing date1 January 2020
Ownerunknown
Number of tenants1,000+ [before closing]
Total retail floor area50,000 m2 (540,000 sq ft)
Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
Simplified Chinese武汉华南海鲜批发市场
Traditional Chinese武漢華南海鮮批發市場
Literal meaningWuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWǔhàn Huánán Hǎixiān Pīfā Shìchǎng
Map
Interactive map of the market's location

The Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market (Chinese: 武汉华南海鲜批发市场),[1][2] simply known as the Huanan Seafood Market[3] (Huanan means 'South China'), was a live animal and seafood market in Jianghan District, Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, in Central China. The market opened on 19 June 2002.

The market became widely known worldwide after being identified by some sources as the epicenter site of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the resulting pandemic. It is still one of the most likely points of origin for the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) was notified on 31 December 2019 about an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan.[4] Of the initial 41 people hospitalized with "pneumonia", who were officially identified as having laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, by 2 January 2020, two-thirds were exposed to the market.

The market was closed permanently on 1 January 2020 for sanitary procedures and disinfection.[1][5] Thirty-three out of 585 environmental samples (5.6%) obtained from the market indicated evidence of COVID-19 outbreak, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Hui I Azhar Madani Ntoumi 2020 pp. 264–266 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Wuhan pneumonia: how the search for the source of the mystery illness unfolded". South China Morning Post. 22 January 2020. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. ^ "On the menu at Wuhan virus market: Rats and live wolf pups". CNA. 22 January 2020. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. ^ Zhu, Na; Zhang, Dingyu; Wang, Wenling; Li, Xingwang; Yang, Bo; Song, Jingdong; Zhao, Xiang; Huang, Baoying; Shi, Weifeng; Lu, Roujian; Niu, Peihua (24 January 2020). "A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019". New England Journal of Medicine. 382 (8): 727–733. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2001017. ISSN 0028-4793. PMC 7092803. PMID 31978945.
  5. ^ Huang, Chaolin; Wang, Yeming; Li, Xingwang; Ren, Lili; Zhao, Jianping; Hu, Yi; Zhang, Li; Fan, Guohui; Xu, Jiuyang; Gu, Xiaoying; Cheng, Zhenshun (24 January 2020). "Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China". The Lancet. 395 (10223): 497–506. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30183-5. ISSN 0140-6736. PMC 7159299. PMID 31986264. Archived from the original on 31 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  6. ^ Page, Jeremy (27 January 2020). "Virus Sparks Soul-Searching Over China's Wild Animal Trade". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. ^ "China CDC detects a large number of new coronaviruses at the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan". 27 January 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2021.[permanent dead link]