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Comment by Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

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Veterinarian and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins
We also know that the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan had a significant role in the early transmission and initial spread of the virus. These animals could have been the intermediate hosts that brought the virus to the market, leading to the early cases in humans.
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Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, coauthor of "COVID's origins: what we do and don't know," Nature, February 24, 2026.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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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 Nature URL is a 24 February 2026 Comment article titled “COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know” with 23 named coauthors, including Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, not a sole-author piece. The source snippet shows the first sentence exactly, but the submitted quote is not verbatim because it omits an intervening sentence about wildlife species (“These include raccoon dogs ... palm civets ...”) before “These animals could have been ...”. Because the source has multiple individual authors and the stored attribution is to one coauthor only, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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