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On 01 Nov 2021, "Andrew Anglin - White Supremacist Pedo Boy"
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The new evidence is sure to provide a jolt to the debate over the
pandemic’s origins, even if it does not resolve the question of how it
began.

In recent weeks, the so-called lab leak theory, which posits that the
coronavirus emerged from a research lab in Wuhan, has gained traction
thanks to a new intelligence assessment from the U.S. Department of Energy
and hearings led by the new Republican House leadership.

But the genetic data from the market offers some of the most tangible
evidence yet of how the virus could have spilled into people from wild
animals outside a lab. It also suggests that Chinese scientists have given
an incomplete account of evidence that could fill in details about how the
virus was spreading at the Huanan market.

Jeremy Kamil, a virus expert at Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center Shreveport who was not involved in the study, said the findings
showed that “the samples from the market that had early COVID lineages in
them were contaminated with DNA reads of wild animals.”

Kamil said that fell short of conclusive evidence that an infected animal
had set off the pandemic. But, he said, “it really puts the spotlight on
the illegal animal trade in an intimate way.”

Chinese scientists had released a study looking at the same market samples
in February 2022. That study had reported that samples were positive for
the coronavirus but suggested that the virus had come from infected people
who were shopping or working in the market, rather than from animals being
sold there.

At some point, those same researchers, including some affiliated with the
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, posted the raw data
from swabs around the market to GISAID, an international repository of
genetic sequences of viruses. (Attempts to reach the Chinese scientists by
phone Thursday were not successful.)

On March 4, Florence Débarre, an evolutionary biologist at the French
National Center for Scientific Research, happened to be searching that
database for information related to the Huanan market when, she said in an
interview, she noticed more sequences than usual popping up. Confused at
first about whether they contained new data, Débarre put them aside, only
to log in again last week and discover that they held a trove of raw data.

Virus experts had been awaiting that raw sequence data from the market
since they learned of its existence in the Chinese report from February
2022. Débarre said she had alerted other scientists, including the leaders
of a team that had published a set of studies last year pointing to the
market as the origin.

An international team — which included Michael Worobey, an evolutionary
biologist at the University of Arizona; Kristian Andersen, a virus expert
at the Scripps Research Institute in California; and Edward Holmes, a
biologist at the University of Sydney — started mining the new genetic
data last week.

One sample in particular caught their attention. It had been taken from a
cart linked to a specific stall at the Huanan market that Holmes had
visited in 2014, scientists involved in the analysis said. That stall,
Holmes found, contained caged raccoon dogs on top of a separate cage
holding birds, exactly the sort of environment conducive to the
transmission of new viruses.

The swab taken from a cart there in early 2020, the research team found,
contained genetic material from the virus and a raccoon dog.

“We were able to figure out relatively quickly that at least in one of
these samples, there was a lot of raccoon dog nucleic acid, along with
virus nucleic acid,” said Stephen Goldstein, a virus expert at the
University of Utah who worked on the new analysis. (Nucleic acids are the
chemical building blocks that carry genetic information.)

After the international team stumbled upon the new data, they reached out
to the Chinese researchers who had uploaded the files with an offer to
collaborate, hewing to rules of the online repository, scientists involved
with the new analysis said. After that, the sequences disappeared from
GISAID.

It is not clear who removed them or why they were taken down.


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