Coronavirus outbreak: Why ‘Patient Zero’ could hold the answers

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Amid claims the coronavirus has been circulating for months, experts are hunting for an elusive ‘Patient Zero’ who holds the answers.

The now closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus was thought to have originated. Picture: Kyodo News via AP.The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market had been the primary suspect for where the new virus made its jump from the wild into humans.Instead, the wild trade facility served as a “super spreader” – a concentrated hive of activity where the virus rapidly jumped to new hosts.

“Now it seems clear that the seafood market is not the only origin of the virus,” study co-author Bin Cao told the American Association for the Advancement of Science .With no idea where the virus came from, people have gone to extreme measures to protect themselves and their children. These children have even taken to wearing plastic bottles as makeshift homemade protective masks in Beijing. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images.at Georgetown University Dr Daniel Lucey.

They also said “most” cases had an epicentre of the seafood market, and that the virus did not transmit between humans. The majority also came from one specific area of the market – that selling captured wild animals, like snakes, civet cats, beavers – and bats. With the first diagnosis now known to have been on December 1, the virus must have been on the move in November. Its spread went unnoticed because of its apparently infectious incubation period.

Ma Xiaowei, the director of China's National Health Commission, addressed a press conference about the virus outbreak on Sunday, January 26. Picture: AP/Mark Schiefelbein.He said his country, which has taken draconian steps to control its spread, was entering a “crucial stage.”The best candidate we have so far is the person admitted to a Wuhan hospital on December 1.

 

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A good start may be here then check out the China Protest thread above it. Did china conspire with UN & other Countries to silence the Chinese Protesters protesting for freedom against a Communist Government?

Searched everywhere for these masks sold out - walk into PricelineAU I was told I need to go on the waiting list the masks were coming in on the 7th what's the cost I asked - $75 for a box of 10 FFS! I bought some 6 months ago from the two dollar shop when I had hayfeaver -

There will be amazing information to be gained from finding patient 0. If he/sh is still alive, if you can find them. It’s not the movies and would be very hard. Especially when you have to look back so far. 6-8 weeks is a lot to backtrack.

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