Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Interestingly, there's an article [here] about a local who did some research into the incident from publicly available records to trace the origins of the virus.
The virus has been sequenced and shows no signs of alteration, not engineered. Second, its been identified as a Bat Coronavirus, matching 96% to a known coronavirus found in Horseshoe Bats in Yunnan, which live 900 kilometers from the Wuhan market. The seafood markets in Wuhan do not sell bats, but may have had animals who were in contact with bats. Now the funny thing here is Wuhan has two virology labs, The Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 280 meters from the market, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, 12 kilometers from the market, both of them were collecting and studying bat based coronaviruses to prevent future pandemics, and listing job postings about it just before the oubreak.
Now, its hard to say whether the labs had anything to do with it, and I definitely don't think they would do anything like this on purpose. But its possible a lab worker could have gotten accidentally infected, as they were apparently working with the viruses under BioHazard Level 2 which doesn't offer much protection, or maybe an animal came into contact in the market, or waste was improperly disposed of, etc. Its difficult to say without more data, though the WHO had traced the original SARS outbreak to a series of leaks out of the Chinese Institute of Virology in Beijing.
Needless to say, if this were true it may not reflect well on China, so they may be a bit sensitive on the subject. Frankly I don't care for playing the blame game, it doesn't solve anything. It sucks, but at least it may prove to be a good learning experience so we can do better if it happens again.
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