New Delhi: A new study published in the journal Science has claimed that the Covid-19 case identified first or ‘zero patients’ is a women’s seafood vendor in the animal market in the city of China Wuhan and who became symptomatic on December 11, 2019.
The peer-reviewed study was contrary to previously reported findings that the first Covid patient was a 41-year-old man’s accountant, who was 30 km south of Huanan Market, and reported his illness on December 8.
However, when interviewed, the accountant reported that Covid’s symptoms began with fever on December 16 and the disease of December 8 was a dental problem related to infant teeth maintained to adulthood.
“This shows that he was infected through community transmission after the virus began to spread from Huanan Market.
He believes that he might have been infected in the hospital (maybe during his emergency) or on the subway during his trip,” said Michael Worobey.
, University of Arizona Virology evolution, in the article.
Accountants have also traveled north of Huanan Market just before the symptoms begin.
The beginning of the symptoms came after several cases in workers at the Huanan Market, making women’s seafood vendors there were the earliest known cases, with the initial disease of December 11.
“In particular, he reported knowledge about the possibility of Covid-19 cases in the clinic and hospitals nearby Huanan market from December 11, and Huanan market patients were hospitalized at Union Hospital in early December 10,” Worobey said.
Now it’s clear that mammals live vulnerable to Coronavirus, including raccoon dogs for sale in Huanan Market and three other living animal markets in Wuhan before the pandemic.
Coronavirus regarding severe acute breathing syndrome was found in raccoon dogs during the SARS outbreak, which was facilitated by animal-to-human contact in the living animal market in China.
“However, due to the focus of the early public health at the Huanan market, it was still unclear whether the obvious dominant of Covid-19 cases treated with the hospital related to this market really reflected the initial outbreak,” said Michael Worobey, Arizona University Evolutionary virology and a specialist in the origin of the virus epidemic.
With SARS, the living animal market continues to sell infected animals for months, enabling zoonotic abundance set as origin and reveal some independent leaps of animals into humans.
“Unfortunately, no living mammals collected in Huanan Market or other living animal markets in Wuhan have been screened for viruses related to SARS-COV-2, and Huanan markets are closed and disinfected on January 1, 2020,” study.
However, that most cases of initial symptoms are associated with Huanan Market – especially to the west where raccoon dogs are locked up – provide strong evidence of the origin of the animal market of live pandemics, research is recorded.