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Comment by Niema Moshiri

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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
We demonstrate that market-linked severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic diversity is consistent with market emergence and find increased SARS-CoV-2 positivity near and within a wildlife stall.
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Niema Moshiri, coauthor of Alexander Crits-Christoph et al., "Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic," Cell, September 19, 2024.
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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 in the Cell article abstract on ScienceDirect, published 19 September 2024, but the paper is a multi-author work and Niema Moshiri is only one of several listed authors, so I can’t verify this as a single-author quote attributed to Niema Moshiri. ([sciencedirect.com](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867424009012)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 1h ago
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