The hunt for the heroes and villains of covid is drawing energy and attention from the more obviously urgent need to improve global biosecurity in the animal trade and lab safety
would be a matter for science. Instead it has become embroiled in acrimony, politics and, at times, conspiracy theory.
Yet a “natural” spillover is not the only route by which a new virus might enter humans. Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had also been carrying out high-risk research on coronaviruses in inadequate biosafety conditions. Scientists in the city also conducted field trips to sample bats and collect viruses from remote regions of China.
One note of caution here is that, although the animals found at the market were capable of hosting the human variant of, whether the pandemic virus emerged here is not provable with the information available. The viruses picked up by the swabs taken at the market in January 2020 could also have come from infected humans in the market, rather than from animals.
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