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Comment by Moritz U. G. Kraemer

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Infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Oxford and coauthor of studies on SARS-CoV-2 emergence
We report that live SARS-CoV-2–susceptible mammals were sold at the market in late 2019 and that within the market, SARS-CoV-2–positive environmental samples were spatially associated with vendors selling live mammals.
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Moritz U. G. Kraemer, coauthor of Worobey et al., "The Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic," Science, August 26, 2022.
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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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Disputed The source URL does contain the quoted sentence verbatim in the abstract, and the page lists the publication as published on 2022-08-26. However, it is a multi-author paper credited to Michael Worobey, Joshua I. Levy, Lorena Malpica Serrano, Alexander Crits-Christoph, Jonathan E. Pekar, Stephen A. Goldstein, Angela L. Rasmussen, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Chris Newman, Marion P. G. Koopmans, Marc A. Suchard, Joel O. Wertheim, Philippe Lemey, David L. Robertson, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut, and Kristian G. Andersen, with Michael Worobey and Kristian G. Andersen marked as corresponding authors. Because the quote is not attributed solely to Moritz U. G. Kraemer, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. ([research.ed.ac.uk](https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/the-huanan-seafood-wholesale-market-in-wuhan-was-the-early-epicen/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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