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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.989 [SLACK_001203] · slack_pm:msg:10314

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Date
2021-08-16 14:39
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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It was the 99% pangolin virus that turned out to be not 99% IIRC.

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It was the 99% pangolin virus that turned out to be not 99% IIRC. own voice, substantive speaker_own asserts

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  1. 2021-08-16 14:34 Andrew Rambaut open
    Susceptible animals seem to be scatter bombed across the mammalian tree
  2. 2021-08-16 14:34 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, it's really weird.
  3. 2021-08-16 14:37 Andrew Rambaut open
    I am impressed with myself... would be happy if this one leaked out: [shared file(s): image.png]
  4. 2021-08-16 14:38 Andrew Rambaut open
    But does anyone remember what I was talking about with respect to "reports, but no information, about virus from non-human animals in Wuhan"?
  5. 2021-08-16 14:39 Robert F. Garry
    It was the 99% pangolin virus that turned out to be not 99% IIRC.
  6. 2021-08-16 14:44 Andrew Rambaut open
    I am not sure - that wasn't in Wuhan (and we knew it wasn't).
  7. 2021-08-16 14:44 Andrew Rambaut open
    Perhaps it was the bags of cats?
  8. 2021-08-16 14:54 Robert F. Garry open
    That could be.
  9. 2021-08-16 15:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    @Andrew Rambaut - where did this leak? And yeah - I think you were talking about cats if I remember correctly our conversations back then.

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