En mildest talt kontroversielt preprint er netop udgivet på den sociale platform for forskere, researchgate.
Titlen er simpel:
The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus
Abstracted er frit tilgængeligt for alle:
The 2019-nCoV has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were almost identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human. An article published on The Lancet reported that 27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 meters from the seafood market. We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory. Our proposal provided an alternative origin of the coronavirus in addition to natural recombination and intermediate host.
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the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory
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Dette preprint er tilsyneladende lagt op af en forsker fra det sydlige Kina.
De følgende dage må vise om der er tale om et falsum.
Ellers må den unge kineser siges at være en overordentlig modig mand.
Kilder:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339070128_The_possible_origins_of_2019-nCoV_coronavirus