. >> peter daszak: what we found as part of this w.h.o. that there is a pathway. >> stahl: peter daszak, a member of the w.h.o. team and an expert on how animal viruses jump to humans, has worked on previous viral outbreaks, including in china. he says the pathway leads not to the lab in wuhan but from wildlife farms in southern china directly to the wet market in wuhan, the huanan seafood market. >> daszak: the theory is that somehow that virus got from a bat into one of these wildlife farms, and then the animals were shipped into the market. and they contaminated people while they were handling them, chopping them up, killing them, whatever you do before you cook an animal. >> stahl: wild animals? >> daszak: yeah, these... >> stahl: like what? >> daszak: they're a traditional food. civets, these are like ferrets. there's also an animal called a ferret badger. rabbits, which we know can carry the virus. those animals were coming into the market from farms over 1,000 miles away. >> stahl: were you able to test any of the animals found in t

. >> reporter: peter daszak confirming what cnn first reported in january of last year that the seafood market sold more than just seafood and number two, wildlife markets in china provided a pathway for the virus. rosemary. >> kristie lu stout, many thanks, joining us live from hong kong. let's turn to dr. shawn griffiths in oxford, england. she was the chair of hong kong's inquiry into the sars outbreak in 2003. thank you, doctor, for joining us. >> good morning. >> so what did you make of the findings laid out in the w.h.o. report on the origins of covid-19 and how credible are these given the very restricted access the team received a year after the start of this pandemic? >> well, as your reporter was saying, this is a draft report, and i was sent a copy by your team. so i've had a very quick look at it. but the findings aren't altogether surprising because if you go back to 2003 when the sars outbreak, a coronavirus outbreak which affected hong kong in particular and the far east as well as spreading to canada, and was seen as -- is now seen as a forerunner of this covid outbreak.

oh, it's peter daszak, surprise, surprise, now let's see if you can guess what daszak and his colleaguesd in their investigation? well, a whole lot of chinese innocence. in the w.h.o.'s 120-page report on the origins of the virus, only two pages address the possibility it may have come from a lab. although rare laboratory accidents do happen in different laboratories around the world are working with bat coronavirus. yet, the report says, the wuhan cdc laboratory moved on the second of december 2019 to a new location near the wet market, such moves can be disruptive for the operation of any laboratory. but tonight get the wrong idea says the w.h.o. it is still a and we're quoting extremely unlikely the virus emerged from the lab why is it so unlikely exactly? here is the explanation. there is no record of viruses closely related to the controversies in any laboratory before december of 2001 or genomes that in combination could provide a sars covid 2 genome. in other words, we didn't find a paper trail because china didn't leave one. if anyone could keep deadly viruses from escaping into