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Virologist at Imperial College London studying emerging viruses.
We identify wildlife DNA in all SARS-CoV-2-positive samples from this stall, including species such as civets, bamboo rats, and raccoon dogs, previously identified as possible intermediate hosts.
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Genetic Tracing of Market Wildlife and Viruses at the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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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 exact sentence appears verbatim in the abstract on the Andersen Lab page for the Cell paper, which is dated September 20, 2024, but the page lists many individual authors (including Thomas P. Peacock) rather than a single author, so I can’t verify it as a single-author quote. ([andersen-lab.com](https://andersen-lab.com/papers/crits-christoph-et-al-cell-2024/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago
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