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...possibility that seasonality was a factor in the replication of the 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 full of syringes, swabs and sample vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he tested 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...
Almost every week for the past year, Yi, a microbiology associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, has traveled by rail up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control, who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the SARS coronavirus. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily banning...
...four pages of genetic sequences taken from civets and had the letter hand-delivered on Jan. 2. Within hours the Ministry of Health in Beijing passed the letter to the Guangdong Department of Health. Yi's reputation as a virologist was such that the Guangdong government invited him to Guangzhou on Jan. 3 to make his case...
...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 been a physician to Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments of SARS, emerging in China as the doctor most associated with fighting, and eventually defeating, the disease. A charismatic, well-built 67-year-old, he is the best-known...
...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 the sequencing, they had not yet analyzed this virus' phylogenetic origins, the RNA road map that would offer some understanding of how this particular strain would be related to those previously gathered. Yi suggested they...