Coronavirus investigators one step closer to solving mystery of 'patient zero'

Fox News ^ | 3/26/20 | FNS

[NoLibZone]

Investigators looking into the COVID-19 mystery could be one step closer to unmasking "patient zero."

A seafood merchant in Wuhan, China, is believed to be the first person diagnosed as having the coronavirus, which can be linked back to a wet market in China, leaked documents allege.

The Daily Mail reported Thursday that China's The Paper claims Wei Guixian, a 57-year-old woman working in Wuhan is the first person on record to be infected with the coronavirus.

Wei told the media outlet she started feeling sick on December 10. Thinking she might have the flu, she went to a local clinic seeking treatment. She was given some pills and then got back to work, selling live shrimp at the market.

Fast forward a week and Wei was barely conscious and clinging to life in a Chinese hospital bed.

[NoLibZone]

"Because it comes from China"

[A strike]

DailyMail=CommunistChina line.

[caww]

Won’tbe the firstvirus to come out of China’s wet markets....a fancy word for animal abuse market where they actually sleep in that filth.

[nuconvert]

Baloney

[SeekAndFind]

This woman is NOT patient zero.

See this statement in the above article:

Wei, unlike many people who have gotten the coronavirus, survived.

And though she is not patient zero, she is the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in the Wuhan market thought to be the epicenter of the crisis.

[isthisnickcool]

Go to youtube and search “Wuhan Market”. Pretty gross stuff.

[freeandfreezing]

The story is not consistent with data published by the JAMA, which is drawn from other Chinese govt. data.

You can use the link below for a magnified version. The first case listed is Dec. 8th.

High Resolution Version

[rrrod]

I post there often....lol

[flamberge]

Rubbish from the Chinese propaganda agency.

The most credible report that I have seen is that "Patient Zero" was an Associate Scientist at the Wuhan BL-4 facility who breached containment of a research sample package in a handling accident. The incident occurred in late September or early October.

The Chinese have been attempting to cover up their mistake ever since then.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Go to youtube and search “Wuhan Market”. Pretty gross stuff.

I agree to the gross stuff. But this market has been there for ages. I suspect patient zero is NOT from the market but was infected in a lab ( the Wuhan CDC lab is just a few hundred meters away from the market ).

Patient zero then went to shop at the market and the rest is this grisly history.

[Zhang Fei]

If you’re ever in NYC, you can get to experience the Wuhan meat market, sans the exotic wildlife:

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[New York’s live markets sell chickens, goats and rabbits to customers who want only the freshest]
https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/new-york-live-markets-sell-chickens-goats-rabbits-customers-freshest-article-1.132070

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My guess as to the key difference? Health inspectors. Ubiquitous in NYC, non-existent or paid-off in China.

[Zhang Fei]

[I agree to the gross stuff. But this market has been there for ages. I suspect patient zero is NOT from the market but was infected in a lab ( the Wuhan CDC lab is just a few hundred meters away from the market ).]

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China has been a source of virulent pathogens for literally thousands of years, including the Plague of Justinian that fatally wounded both the Sassanids and the Byzantines, paving the way for Arab supremacy, and the Black Plague that killed half of Europe all the way up to the Swine Flu of 2009. But this one time, it’s obvious that the virus was a weapon engineered by the Chinese government.

[Maudeen]

This “mystery solving” doesn’t pass the smell test and I don’t mean the China market.

[PA Engineer]

BS. The first 3 index patients were known. The Panda is covering it’s butt with the assistance of useful idiots in media here. CCP-19 did not come from the wet market. It visited the wet market. The bat soup photo was perfect CCP propaganda.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: all the way up to the Swine Flu of 2009

I thought the Swine Flu ( AKA H1N1 ) started in Mexico...

[MrEdd]

Fake news

[Chauncey Gardiner]

“Patient Zero” is the Wuhan BSL-4 lab.

[MrEdd]

Thought to be the epicenter by who?

People who don’t read much? Yep.
People who support the Chinese Communist regime? Yup.

News hounds who were paying attention to this last year? Not hardly.

[jimmygrace]

Did she order the bat soup or pangolin au glxe?

[Zhang Fei]

A study from 2011 claims that there is no evidence of Chinese origin. But it relied on access to Chinese samples. Were they allowed full access to Chinese data, given the government’s record of suppressing information deleterious to its image, especially after the SARS fiasco of several years prior, which also originated in China?

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http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2011/07/flu-news-scan-china-unlikely-2009-h1n1-source-human-flu-challenge
[Study finds no evidence of China origin for 2009 H1N1 virus
Scientists have suspected that the 2009 H1N1 virus may have originated in China, given that country’s large human and pig populations and the fact that is the only known area where American triple-reassortant (TR) and Eurasian (EA) lineage swine flu viruses coexist. However, a gene study of viruses isolated in Hong Kong and Guangdong province swine before and after the pandemic found no evidence that it originated in China, according to a study published yesterday in the Journal of Virology. The research group included researchers from China, Hong Kong, and the United States. They examined the genome sequences of 405 swine influenza viruses from China. Then they conducted phylogenetic analyses that allowed them to group the viruses by host-specific lineages, which fell into eight distinct genotype patterns. The TR-EA reassortants they found all arose from independent events, suggesting they were transient events that may have been confined to a small swine population. None of the viruses had an identical genotype to the 2009 H1N1 virus. The group suggested that lack of persistence in the reassortants could mean the viruses lack pandemic virus characteristics or that the gene segments aren’t compatible enough to produce a stable virus.]

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The Spanish flu is postulated to have originated in China, although Chinese researchers have, as usual, done the one thing they excel at - deny, deny, deny:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Hypotheses_about_the_source