O-28 - All 457 animal-related market samples (188 individuals, 18 species) were SARS-CoV-2 negative, but were leftover frozen goods and vermin sampled after market closure
Table 3 breakdown: Huanan market 327, warehouses 32, cats/rats/vectors 92, surrounding markets 6 — all 0 positive. Table 4 species include rabbit/hare (104), stray cat (80, incl. faeces), snake (80), hedgehog (67), muntjac (18), dog (17), badger (16, frozen carcasses, identity not DNA-barcoded), bamboo rat (15), etc. Critically, the report states sampling drew on “unsold goods kept in refrigerators and freezers” and vector animals — i.e. the live wildlife sold in December had already been removed at market closure (1 Jan 2020). The report also claims “no verified reports of live mammals being sold around 2019”, which later market-metagenomic work disputes. Shares the China-CDC market-collection basis (D-1) with S-35 and S-39.
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Why this is evidence
Same discrimination as the animal-negative finding: prima facie against a market wildlife source (H-14) versus a human/cold-chain seed (H-15), but the sampled items were frozen goods and vermin collected after the live animals were removed, so the negative is near-uninformative.