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H-25 - Pangolins and bats were not the Huanan-market intermediate host or vector

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hypothesis
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H-25
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merged
question
Was a pangolin (or bat) the animal vector that brought SARS-CoV-2 to the Wuhan markets?
statement
Pangolins (and bats) were not the intermediate host or vector by which SARS-CoV-2 reached humans at the Wuhan markets, since neither was traded there.
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H-14 - The market environmental pattern reflects wildlife-associated emergence at the Huanan market
source
S-19 - Xiao et al. 2021 — animal sales from Wuhan wet markets pre-pandemic
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Discussion; conclusions
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corroborates that pangolins are unlikely implicated as spill-over hosts

Rules out the earlier pangolin-market-vector narrative for the market itself; leaves open pangolins/bats as an upstream natural reservoir off-market. The authors caution the original source is still not established.

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