Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally | Science | AAAS

Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally | Science | AAAS



..Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December.



The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace.