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Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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Yeah I have a hard time believing it has been definitively proven that the market was the source of the virus. Wouldn’t that mean they have the carcass of whatever animal transmitted the virus in their possession? And did the first person known to have contracted it actually say they went there?

Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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post #12

Yeah I have a hard time believing it has been definitively proven that the market was the source of the virus. Wouldn’t that mean they have the carcass of whatever animal transmitted the virus in their possession? And did the first person known to have contracted it actually say they went there?

Why would they have a carcass of something someone ate at least a week before they got sick they caught the virus?

Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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There is a recently opened P4 biolab in Wuhan within miles of the seafood market in question, with researchers who have recently been working with and publishing on the topic of Corona viruses, including research on human transmission. Not to be sensationalist, and personally I think the title is alarmist, but are a number of suspicious elements to this story that are worth examining: https://medium.com/@siradrianbon…

There is a 2017 article on Nature on that laboratory in Wuhan:

https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...

Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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"Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag" https://biorxiv-cache.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2020.01.30.... > [ABSTRACT] We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in ot…

FWIW, https://old.reddit.com/user/BurrShotFirst1804 is claiming that this (preprint, unreviewed) paper is very misleading, speaking as (supposedly) someone highly familiar with at least one of these HIV proteins. Not sure what to make of either the paper itself or this response to it.

Difficult to properly peer review when things are moving so quickly.

Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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There is a recently opened P4 biolab in Wuhan within miles of the seafood market in question, with researchers who have recently been working with and publishing on the topic of Corona viruses, including research on human transmission. Not to be sensationalist, and personally I think the title is alarmist, but are a number of suspicious elements to this story that are worth examining: https://medium.com/@siradrianbon…

s/biolab/World Trade Center/

s/biolab/Apollo/

‘Number of suspicious elements’

Even the VOA has came out to classify this as a hoax. Sometimes people just want to believe in conspiracies.

Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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post #3

There is a recently opened P4 biolab in Wuhan within miles of the seafood market in question, with researchers who have recently been working with and publishing on the topic of Corona viruses, including research on human transmission. Not to be sensationalist, and personally I think the title is alarmist, but are a number of suspicious elements to this story that are worth examining: https://medium.com/@siradrianbon…

Medium account was suspended...

Here's an article from last week about it:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-la...

Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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post #14
post #12

Yeah I have a hard time believing it has been definitively proven that the market was the source of the virus. Wouldn’t that mean they have the carcass of whatever animal transmitted the virus in their possession? And did the first person known to have contracted it actually say they went there?

Why would they have a carcass of something someone ate at least a week before they got sick they caught the virus?

I’ve seen nothing reported on what actually happened, including the allegation someone actually ate something. It could have been transmitted by just walking near something.

Re: Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

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There is a recently opened P4 biolab in Wuhan within miles of the seafood market in question, with researchers who have recently been working with and publishing on the topic of Corona viruses, including research on human transmission. Not to be sensationalist, and personally I think the title is alarmist, but are a number of suspicious elements to this story that are worth examining: https://medium.com/@siradrianbon…

Who is "Adrian Bond", I wonder? Can't find anything about the author.
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