The professors visited the market and believe it could be where the virus jumped from animals and humans. to me, just looking at the market and the layout of the market, with many different stalls, with many different types of animals sold there, some of them live and imported from parts of china where we know that if the bat populations are most prevalent, and have most of these stars related viruses. where are you on the origins of this virus? well, they most likely is that it is bats and i think we may need to think about an intermediary animal to explain how it actually got into people. and what evidence are you basing that on? first of all, the genetic evidence. there is one very close relative of it. ....