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Comment by Normand Labbé

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Biosafety specialist and 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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Normand Labbé, coauthor of "COVID's origins: what we do and don't know," Nature, February 24, 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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AI Unverifiable I could not recover this exact wording in the accessible Nature/WHO primary sources; only a broader zoonotic-spillover summary was accessible. Model: gpt-5. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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