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Mar 1, 2023 · The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has been studying coronaviruses in bats for over a decade. The institute is a 40-minute drive from the Huanan wet market where the first cluster of...
Feb 26, 2022 · The question of whether the outbreak began with a spillover from wildlife sold at the market, a leak from a Wuhan virology lab or some other event has given rise to pitched debates over how...
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Mar 17, 2023 · The Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2021. The Energy Department concluded with “low confidence” that an accidental laboratory leak most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic. But new genetic...
Apr 12, 2023 · Genetic evidence collected by Chinese researchers in January 2020—and finally made public earlier this year—puts raccoon dogs and other wild animals at a market in Wuhan, China, that was the...
- Huanan Market Was The Pandemic Epicentre
- Animal Spillover
- Death Knell For The Lab Leak Theory
- Wounds That May Never Be Healed
An analysis of the geographic locations of the earliest known COVID cases – dating to December 2019 – revealed a strong clustering around the Huanan market. This was true not only for people who worked at or visited the market, but also for those who had no links to it. Although there will be many missing cases, there’s no evidence of widespread sa...
SARS-CoV-2 has evolved into an array of lineages, some familiar to us as the “variants of concern” (what we call Delta, Omicron and so on). The first split in the SARS-CoV-2 family tree – between the “A” and “B” lineages – occurred very early in the pandemic. Both lineages have an epicentre at the market and both were detected there. Further analys...
The lab leak theory rests on an unfortunate coincidence: that SARS-CoV-2 emerged in a city with a laboratory that works on bat coronaviruses. Some of these bat coronaviruses are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. But not close enough to be direct ancestors. Sadly, the focus on the Wuhan Institute of Virology has distracted us from a far more important ...
The acrid stench of xenophobia lingers over much of this discussion. Fervent dismissals by the Chinese scientists of anything untoward are blithely cast as lies. Yet during this crucial period these same scientists were going to international conferences and welcoming visitors. Do we honestly believe they would have such a pathological disdain for ...
Nov 18, 2021 · The new analysis suggests that the first known patient sickened with the coronavirus was a vendor in a large Wuhan animal market, not an accountant who lived many miles from it.
Apr 5, 2023 · Debate has raged over whether it had a natural origin, with a virus passing from animals to humans, or arose from a laboratory leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Huanan market has...
