This is the mine where the coronary could have appeared eight years ago.

Coronavirus appeared for the first time among the workers who cleaned slices from a Chinese mine in 2012, and may not have come from the Wuhan market, scientists say.

Six miners got sick with a pneumonia-like virus in the Mojiang mine in the Yunnan province of southwestern China eight years ago.

The miners had spent two weeks removing bats ' trunks, resulting in three of them dying from the virus.

According to the British newspaper The Sun, physician Lee Xu, who treated miners, describes how patients had fever, dry coughs, limb pains, and headaches.

These are the symptoms we're accompanying now with COVID-19, according to virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson.

Latham and Wilson, who work on the non-profit Biosection Source project in Itaca, read the the thesis written by the Chinese medical doctor treating miners.

They said they were sent to examine everything they thought they knew about pandemic.

Latham told the New York Post that the Coronavirus almost probably left Wuhan Lab.

They believe that the virus, which has killed over 760,000 people worldwide, evolved within miners and was very well adapted to humans.

tissue samples from infected miners in Wuhan laboratory by the doctor, where many believed that the virus was flowing, showed that the source of the infection was a koronavirus similar to SARS from a bat.

The market in Wuhan is believed to have been the place where the virus began in December 2019.