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Virologist and chief research officer at the Kenya Medical Research Institute Centre for Virus Research; 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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Rosemary Sang, 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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Disputed Disputed: the Nature source page dated 24 February 2026 lists 23 individual authors, with Rosemary Sang as one co-author rather than the sole author, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. The URL does contain both submitted sentences, but they are not a single continuous verbatim passage in the article; intervening text is omitted without [...]. ([nature.com](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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