my name is dominic dwyer.ruses doing this, so that's why i think it is really still the most likely explanation. my name is dominic dwyer. i'm a medical virologist and infectious diseases specialist. and i have worked in public health virology for many years. professor dwyer agrees that all the current evidence points to a natural animal spill—over. wild animals and farmed animals were for sale in the markets in wuhan before the outbreak. so all of these piece by piece lean towards the animal hypothesis. but it's important to remember that you don't necessarily get a single piece of definitive evidence. it really is often about building block by block to get there. almost all of the scientists i have been in touch with agree that based on the evidence available so far, an animal spill—over is the most likely cause of the pandemic. but questions also remain over whether that spill—over may have happened by accident at a world—leading coronavirus research centre that happens to be in wuhan. in 2003, china was hi