It's correct there are not a lot of bats in Wuhan, which is a city of 11 million people and a major transportation hub. Zoonotic spillover can happen anywhere that animals are transported, including distant major cities. SARS started in Guangdong, far from Yunnan.
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Presumably the Chinese government knows the answer. So this might be the best case scenario where they will tighten up wet markets to avoid blame while also tightening up lab security quietly. Both desperately need to happen.
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they do know the ansewr, they did copious environmental sampling of the area and turned-up... absolutely nothing.
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That's not why Wuhan was selected, but the claim isn't necessarily about Wuhan. The modern WIV was built to address zoonotic emergence in China. In that sense, the location is important because Wuhan is a major air and rail hub and is centrally located.
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She replied, seems it was misstated a bit. (And she'd muted the thread so did not see my question to her).
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there are absolutely no documented, or suspected, zoonotic crossovers happening in Wuhan. It was used as a negative control in a crossover study.
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