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Sorry, this is wild speculation, not fact. The “100% match” you cited is for one protein (and a small one, at that - just 75 amino acids long) which proves abso
by nneonneo 7y ago
Sorry, this is wild speculation, not fact. The “100% match” you cited is for one protein (and a small one, at that - just 75 amino acids long) which proves absolutely nothing (individual proteins can often be highly conserved - and amino acid alignment doesn’t guarantee that the underlying genes are even the same).
SARS and MERS, highly similar viruses which emerged over the last 20 years, have a very similar emergence pattern to the new nCoV virus. Wuhan has a seafood market which has been known to house animals other than seafood. Initial cases were from those seafood markets. There’s quite literally no evidence to suggest that the Wuhan lab had anything to do with this outbreak.
- busymom0 7y ago> Wuhan lab had anything to do with this outbreak The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is the only lab in China designated for studying dangerous pathogens like SARS and Ebola. What are the chances of coincidence that Wuhan is also the center of this current outbreak? Maybe one of the lab animals somehow leaked and ended up in the food market.
- hatenberg 7y agoOccams razor would posit that the presence of illegal food markets may be a higher predictor of illnesses than a BSL4 lab