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Comment by Lorena M. Malpica Serrano

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Evolutionary biology researcher and coauthor of the Science paper on the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market as the early epicenter of COVID-19
We show here that the earliest known COVID-19 cases from December 2019, including those without reported direct links, were geographically centered on this market. We report that live SARS-CoV-2-susceptible mammals were sold at the market in late 2019 and that within the market, SARS-CoV-2-positive environmental samples were spatially associated with vendors selling live mammals.
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Lorena M. Malpica Serrano, coauthor of Worobey et al., "The Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic," Science, Aug. 26, 2022.
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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 quote appears verbatim in the University of Edinburgh Research Explorer abstract for the Science article, and that page lists Lorena M. Malpica Serrano among the 17 authors; however, the source is a multi-author paper, so a single-author attribution to Lorena M. Malpica Serrano cannot be verified as the canonical quote author. The page also shows the publication date as 2022-08-26. ([research.ed.ac.uk](https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/the-huanan-seafood-wholesale-market-in-wuhan-was-the-early-epicen/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago
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