A member of a World health Organization (WHO)-led expert mission in Wuhan said he was surprised by the complexity of finding the source of the new coronavirus and that years of research lie ahead.
Dominic Dwyer, a microbiologist and infectious disease expert, said the expert mission in Wuhan had been granted access that it had previously requested from Chinese authorities. The expert group tried to get information about the early days of the Wuhan outbreak.
He stated, “Everyone knows how the outbreak started in Wuhan’s South China market, but the key is what happened then and before.”
Dwyer also said that the “difficulty” with the New crown outbreak is that people with early asymptomatic infections may not know they have the virus. He has worked with the WHO during SARS and bird flu outbreaks.
He said, “It would be naive to think we would find patient zero.” He added that the early cases were found in November, “but it’s what happens slightly before that that is the very interesting part and the tricky and difficult part.”
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