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Date
2021-04-12 17:20
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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This was from one of his earlier emails "If it was pangolins infected by bats, there are lots of these little "holdingpens" on the pangolin underground railroad in China, often mixed in with other wildlife breeding. Was at one inGuangdong a couple years back where they had some, but apparently had just moved them a week or so before wegot there. Everyone around that we spoke with knew they kept pangolins there."

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  1. 2021-04-12 16:33 Kristian G. Andersen open
    SARS, of course, broke out in Guangdong. I wonder if we're blind because we're focusing so much on bats in Yunnan - is it possible these guys are coming from pangolins?
  2. 2021-04-12 16:34 Edward C. Holmes open
    No doubt in my mind that pangolins are major reservoirs. That's what Tommy and Linfa see as well. And it won't justbe bats and pangolins.
  3. 2021-04-12 16:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Wasn't there a zoo behind the Huanan market too? Any idea if they had pangolins?
  4. 2021-04-12 16:36 Edward C. Holmes open
    I'll check with that reporter
  5. 2021-04-12 17:20 Edward C. Holmes
    This was from one of his earlier emails "If it was pangolins infected by bats, there are lots of these little "holdingpens" on the pangolin underground railroad in China, often mixed in with other wildlife breeding. Was at one inGuangdong a couple years back where they had some, but apparently had just moved them a week or so before wegot there. Everyone around that we spoke with knew they kept pangolins there."
  6. 2021-04-12 17:21 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Interesting....

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