Officials in China, as well as Chinese team leader Liang Wannian, have promoted the third theory - the cold-chain one - while the U.S. They were, in order of likelihood: from a bat through an intermediary animal straight from a bat via contaminated frozen food products from a leak from a laboratory like the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Petersburg Pasteur Institute in Russia, summarized the four main leads first laid out at a marathon news conference in China last month about the suspected origins of the first infection in humans. Team member Vladimir Dedkov, an epidemiologist and deputy director of research at the St. The WHO and China later ironed out the ground rules. The WHO has bristled at depictions of the mission as an “investigation” - saying that smacks of an invasive forensic probe that wasn’t called for under the resolution adopted unanimously by the agency’s member states in May that paved the way for the collaboration. The Wuhan trip is billed as Phase 1 in a vast undertaking to flesh out the origins of the virus. I think it is key to keep in mind that WHO has very limited powers.” “And I expect some to criticize this as insufficient. “I expect that this report will only be a first step into investigating the origins of the virus and that the WHO secretariat will probably say this,” said Matthew Kavanagh, director of Georgetown University’s Global Health Policy and Governance Initiative at the O’Neill Institute. Defenders of the World Health Organization, which assembled the team, say it can’t simply parachute in experts to tell a country what to do - let alone one as powerful as China.
It will offer a first glance in writing from 10 international epidemiologists, data scientists, veterinary, lab and food safety experts who visited China and the city of Wuhan - where a market was seen as the initial epicenter - earlier this year to work with Chinese counterparts who pulled up the bulk of early data.Ĭritics have raised questions about the objectivity of the team, insisting that China’s government had a pivotal say over its composition. By many accounts, the report could offer few concrete answers, and may raise further questions. It wasn’t immediately clear when the report will be released after its publication was delayed earlier this month.
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