Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.” Instead of properly disposing of infected animals by cremation, as the law requires, they sell them on the side to make a extra cash. Chinese authorities first blamed the initial spread of the coronavirus on a seafood market not far from the Institute of Virology, even though the first documented cases of Covid-19 (the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2) involved people who had never set foot there.