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...factor in the replication of the SARS coronavirus, he waited until October?about a year since the first cases appeared?and began returning to the Guangdong wild animal markets every week with his black satchel bag full of syringes, swabs and sample vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he would test to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals and haul them away in cages to the Guangzhou CDC labs, where he would gather samples before sending the creatures...
...framed a simple letter to Beijing's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, which he CC'ed to the Ministry of Health and the China CDC. "With winter coming, the wildlife markets have reopened, providing the perfect conditions for another outbreak of SARS," he wrote. He went on to list his findings that the civet is the major carrier of the SARS coronavirus, that the SARS coronavirus exists in different animals from different regions, that this virus can infect humans and, most frightening, that the "transmitting mechanism for the resurgence of SARS is in place." He enclosed four pages...
...noon in a hotel conference room in the western part of the city, Yi met with some of the province's highest health officials. There were representatives from the Department of Health, the Guangdong CDC, and the Ministry of Health, as well as eminent doctors and scientists from other institutions. Every man in that room had lived and worked through the first-ever SARS outbreak; many were clinicians who had watched patients whither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famed for having...
...little hysterical. As the letter had been passed down from the Ministry of Health, somehow those four pages of genetic sequences, which provided the evidence backing up his dramatic assertions, were lost. Yi called his laboratory in Hong Kong and had the documents e-mailed to the Guangdong CDC...
...kept on insisting, incorrectly, that SARS was a novel form of avian influenza. Even after the genetic sequences had arrived from Hong Kong, his mainland peers were unconvinced. "When someone is showing you raw data, you have to be careful," said Dr. Xu Ruiheng, deputy director of the Guangdong CDC. "You have to ask yourself, is this real or is this fabricated?" In turn, Yi asked his Chinese counterparts if they had the sequences for the human case now recovering in Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital. They produced their documents. It turned out that though they had done...