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H-26 - The Wuhan market wildlife trade was a viable SARS-CoV-2 spillover route

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hypothesis
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H-26
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merged
question
Did the Wuhan market wildlife trade provide a plausible animal-to-human spillover route for SARS-CoV-2?
statement
The pre-pandemic Wuhan wildlife trade constituted a viable route for a SARS-CoV-2 wildlife-to-human spillover, because live SARS-CoV-2-susceptible mammals were sold in volume under high-contact conditions at these markets (including Huanan).
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H-14 - The market environmental pattern reflects wildlife-associated emergence at the Huanan market
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S-19 - Xiao et al. 2021 — animal sales from Wuhan wet markets pre-pandemic
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Discussion

The animal-side precondition any market-spillover hypothesis needs. Establishes feasibility (susceptible species present under spillover-conducive conditions), not that a spillover actually occurred - no infected market animal was ever sampled.

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