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...Instead, subsequent research by a mainland Chinese team challenged Yi's research, finding no evidence of the SARS coronavirus in civets. Meanwhile, other scientists murmured that Yi's data was based on too narrow a range of samples drawn from just one market. Perhaps those civets, some argued, had been infected by humans in that market, rather than the other way around. For Yi, a hot-tempered, chain-smoking workaholic, this was an unbearable impugning not just of his research but also his genuine desire to apply his science to public health. Even more worrying was the Chinese government...
...Despite the doubts cast by other scientists, Yi was still sure there was SARS coronavirus in wildlife markets. Taking into account the possibility that seasonality was a 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...
...late December, Yi was sitting in his apartment in Hong Kong, on his leather sofa, watching his big-screen TV, smoking his Mild Seven cigarettes and wondering about his way forward. It was only a matter of time before another outbreak would occur, he now believed. There was simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the jump. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published that could impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population or at least limit contact between humans...
...Yi believes deeply in the future of the People's Republic and is forgiving of its occasional foibles, dismissing malfeasances such as last year's early cover-up of the SARS outbreak with a shrug. The many top officials he has met, he believes, will always do what is right if they have the relevant information. The problem is getting that data in front of them...
...frightening, that the "transmitting mechanism for the resurgence of SARS is in place." He enclosed 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...