A new report suggests the virus that causes COVID-19 may be linked to raccoon dogs that were illegally being sold at a wet seafood market in China. \"October 2003 report found a virus very similar to SARS-CoV-1, which a cousin of the new coronavirus, in a raccoon dog and among humans at a live animal market in Guangdong, China. Kamil said if the virus did come from wildlife, it puts a spotlight on some practices not being enforced