WHO investigation may have finally found zero patient with coronavirus – BGR

• The World Health Organization will soon publish the results of its official investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
• The researchers spoke to the man who is currently believed to be the first person to be infected with the new coronavirus, discovering that the virus may have reached humans at a food market in Wuhan.
• The person believed to be COVID-19’s zero patient fell ill on December 8, 2019 and had no travel history.

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The first official investigation of coronavirus by the World Health Organization (WHO) was completed a few weeks ago, and the first conclusions do not provide a better explanation for the origins of COVID-19. After several months of controversial planning, the researchers found that the most likely explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic is animal-to-human transmission. It is not clear which animals may have spread the virus or when the jump to humans may have taken place. In the process, WHO scientists spoke to a potential zero patient. If he were the first person to hire COVID-19, the location of the first coveted case would change to a food market in Wuhan, instead of the infamous Huanan market. Its history also indicates that the transmission of COVID-19 may have started well before the end of December 2019, when the first cases were announced to the world.

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WHO officials met the alleged patient zero when visiting Wuhan Wall Street Newspaper reports. The man, an office worker in his 40s, was reportedly infected on December 8. He works for a private company and had no recent travel history.

“He has a very, in a way, monotonous and normal life – no mountain hikes,” said Dr. Peter Ben Embarek The newspaper. The man’s main hobby was surfing the Internet, said Peter Daszak. Both employees were on the ground in Wuhan during the infection, with Ben Embarek leading the WHO team. Patient zero told WHO researchers that his parents had visited another food market in the local community, not the one in Wuhan, which was associated with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. China said months ago that the Wuhan market was not the source of COVID-19.

The man’s claim that his parents had visited another market dropped in the end with the WHO interview. Scientists were unable to ascertain other details or identify the market. Daszak said CNN that the man’s parents were negative, but Chinese officials have yet to track his contacts in the market.

It is not clear when the man’s parents were tested or what type of test they received. There were no COVID-19 tests in early December 2019, as no one was looking for this particular disease. Antibody tests can determine whether a person has survived COVID-19 or not, but antibodies usually begin to disappear from the bloodstream several months after infection.

The report notes that the WHO team wants to identify the market and see what kind of animals were sold there. They also want to see if any of the 174 confirmed cases as of December 2019 – a number higher than initial estimates – had a connection to that market. Wuhan has about 400 food markets serving a population of 400 million.

WHO researchers said they had found at least two types of animals that can carry the coronavirus in the Huanan market, including ferret badgers and rabbits.

The researchers also noted that the virus was spreading widely throughout the city a few days after the first known cases on the market. This indicates that the outbreak may have started elsewhere. “There is clear evidence of simultaneous transmission of the virus elsewhere outside the market,” Thea Fischer told reporters in Wuhan. “It seems less likely that the market is the source of the virus epidemic.” Fisher is a Danish epidemiologist and a member of the WHO team.

This particular 40-year-old man may not be patient zero. Some researchers say an elderly man fell ill on December 1, 2019. A doctor who treated him said the man had other chronic illnesses and was unable to speak. His relatives estimated the date when the first symptoms appeared. WHO will publish a summary report in the coming days that will recommend further studies to determine the source of the pandemic.

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