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One Health researcher 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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Hung Nguyen-Viet, 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 supplied Nature URL does contain this wording, but indexed text shows the second sentence continues after “humans” with “— although it remains unclear ...”, so the stored excerpt is truncated without omission marks. More importantly, Nature lists 23 individual coauthors on the article, including Hung Nguyen-Viet, so this is not a single-author quote attributable to him alone. ([nature.com](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y.pdf?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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