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New Research Casts Doubt Coronavirus Epidemic Started At Wuhan Food Market

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Though the possibility of zoonotic transmission hasn’t been entirely ruled out, these researchers apparently believed that there’s reason to doubt that the fish market was the source of the virus.

Although practically all of the western media reports from the city of Wuhan have claimed that the city’s hospitals have been completely overwhelmed by cases of pneumonia as more cases of the Wuhan coronavirus are confirmed, the South China Morning Post reports that a team of researchers at Wuhan’s Jinyintan hospital have retraced the movements of the first individual who was diagnosed with the virus, and determined that he had no links to a shady seafood market selling live snakes and bats for human consumption.

Amazingly, SCMP caveated its report by claiming that other patients among the earliest cases had “continuous exposure to the market,” which was shut down on Jan. 1 by Wuhan authorities over fears that its trade in wild animals was linked to the viral outbreak. Authorities have since banned the selling of live animals at markets.

The researchers, seven of whom work at Wuhan’s Jinyintan hospital, designated for patients with the illness, revealed on Friday in The Lancet medical journal that symptoms of the new disease were first reported on December 1 – much earlier than the Wuhan government’s initial announcement on December 31 of 27 cases of the pneumonia-like infection.

According to the report, the first patient had no exposure to the Huanan seafood market which was shut down on January 1 over fears – later confirmed – that the new virus was linked to its trade in wild animals. The researchers added that none of the patient’s family had developed fever or any respiratory symptoms. There was also no epidemiological link between the first patient and the later cases, they found.

The researchers analysed data from 41 patients with confirmed infections who had showed an onset of symptoms up to January 2. Six of those patients died, putting the fatality rate of the group at 15 per cent. The researchers noted that clinical presentations of the patients greatly resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome.

The first patient to die from the new coronavirus had continuous exposure to the market before he was admitted to hospital with a seven-day history of fever, cough and breathing difficulties, according to their report.

Doctors also identified 13 other patients who had no contact with the market, which helps build the case for human to human transmission.

The absence of a link to the seafood market is one of the indicators for human-to-human transmission of the virus and the researchers identified another 13 patients who also had no direct exposure to the market.

“Taken together, evidence so far indicates human transmission for 2019-nCoV,” the report said. “We are concerned that 2019-nCoV could have acquired the ability for efficient human transmission,” the researchers added, along with a strong recommendation for precautions such as fit-tested N95 respirators and other personal protective equipment.

Much to Beijing’s chagrin, a team of Chinese scientists on Friday revealed that symptoms of the virus first emerged as early as Dec. 1, much earlier than the Wuhan government’s initial announcement of the first 27 cases on Dec. 31. The notion that the virus may have been transmitted to humans via consuming bats, rats, badgers or snakes was widely reported in the Western press, even by CNN.

Though the possibility of zoonotic transmission hasn’t been entirely ruled out, these researchers apparently believed that there’s reason to doubt that the fish market was the source of the virus. However, the situation is still very much in flux, and it remains true that some of the other patients did have contact with the market.

Either way, do the researchers findings lend more credence to the other conspiracy theory about the virus’s origin? Wuhan reportedly has two labs that participate in China’s bio-warfare program, as Radio Free Asia first reported, and a handful of US outlets, including the Washington Times, have picked up the story.

Was CoV manufactured by the real-world equivalent of Umbrella Corp?

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BobValdez
BobValdez
January 26, 2020

More likely it started at the us consular offices in the area.

William H Warrick III MD
William H Warrick III MD
January 26, 2020

There is an excellent article on Global Research by Larry Romanov on this topic that explains what happened. There was a similar DNA collection in Russian Georgia 2 or 3 years ago so I predict a Virus will appear in Georgia in the near future.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinas-new-coronavirus-an-examination-of-the-facts/5701662

br8nstorm
br8nstorm
January 26, 2020

The coronavirus is directly related to the events unfolding in Hong Kong. China’s extradition bill to apprehend Chinese dissidents outside mainland China involves the entire nature of President Xi’s unilateral rule as China’s leader without the need for reelection. Some say the extradition bill by the Central Communist Committee is the cover-up and silencing of those who know the corruption deal struck between Xi and the entire corrupted Central Committee which allowed Xi to be Ruler of China as long as he shall live and in return the entire Communist government of bureaucrats will continue its corruption and laundering of… Read more »

Diana
Diana
January 26, 2020

Biological warfare? False flag? Eugenics? Mighty exaggeration? Take your pick. All these supposed deaths are rather like the huge number of deaths reported to be from flu each year; except that those have nothing to do with flu and much more to do with pneumonia but it does sell vaccines. I have also read that the city of Wuhan is NOT locked down, so what to believe?

Paul Martin
Paul Martin
January 26, 2020

“The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.”

Do tell! Interesting how they always seem to “prepare” for these kinds of events in advance.

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

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