2/3 The Wuhan Virology Centre has BL4 facilities required for host adaptation evolution experiments. The pandemic strain is not an engineered strain but a very similar virus has not been found in the wild. Only a subset of early human cases relate to the market.
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But host adaptation expts in animals, such as ferrets would be very different to results from cell culture right?
Yes - but again with a much lower prior (+ we know of no such experiments having been ongoing). Because you find all the 'unusual' features of this virus in nature and you have strong priors, there's no reason to invoke culture.
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Thanks Kristian, really useful, very much a case of exactly the right unit in the right place at the right time then. Still spooky, but get it...
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