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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
In late 2019, SARS-CoV-2 was epidemiologically linked to a market selling wild animals in central China [...] Genetic and epidemiological evidence supports the hypothesis that virus preceding SARS-CoV-2 briefly circulated in an intermediate host sold at the market.
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Edyth Parker, coauthor of "Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics," Cell, published March 6, 2026.
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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 quoted wording is a faithful omission-based excerpt from the cited PMC article, which was published in Cell on March 6, 2026, but the source is a multi-author paper and does not attribute that passage to Edyth Parker alone; PubMed lists eight individual authors (Jennifer L. Havens, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Jordan D. Zehr, Jonathan E. Pekar, Edyth Parker, Michael Worobey, Kristian G. Andersen, and Joel O. Wertheim), so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote by Edyth Parker. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13092335/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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