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View submission: Monthly Scientific Discussion Thread - December 2024
A small non-conclusive piece of the origin puzzle
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03968-0[1][2]
1: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03968-0
2: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03968-0
They found evidence that suggests humans, raccoon dogs and greater hog badgers from the market were likely infected. aka sick with something that may or may not have been covid. They hope to see if they can discover unique fingerprints from these infection markers to potentially suggest what type of virus may have caused these infections.
The non-peer reviewed results were presented in the *Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Evolution, Pathogenesis and Virology of Coronaviruses* conference, in Awaji, Japan, on 3 December.
Comment by AcornAl at 06/12/2024 at 15:01 UTC
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And from the same conference, Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals data about many of the coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute, including 56 new betacoronaviruses but nothing closely related to SARS-CoV-2. She hopes to publish these in the near future.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03982-2[1][2]