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...other scientists, Yi was still sure there was SARS coronavirus in wildlife markets. Taking into account the possibility that seasonality was a factor in the replication of the SARS coronavirus, he waited until October?about a year since the first cases appeared?and began returning to the Guangdong wild animal markets every week with his black satchel bag full of syringes, swabs and sample vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he would test to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals...
...disease that had infected humans was again at large. The animals that showed the highest infection rate by far were the civet cats, with 16 positive cases out of 21 animals tested. These civets had come from several different markets and traders, which meant the disease was lurking in wild animal markets throughout Guangdong?and maybe the rest of China...
...virus. That way, they would be able to compare the two and determine, more precisely, the real risk level. If the two phylogenetic trees were similar, Yi explained and Zhong concurred, it would confirm that the disease was again afoot and, in this case, was certainly related to the wild animal markets. The Guangzhou officials agreed, the new case's sequences were sent, and the men drank tea and smoked while waiting for Yi's lab to complete the computer modeling...
...which meant that these two viruses not only belonged to the same phylogenetic tree, they were both on the same branch, practically the same leaf. Science doesn't produce many moments like this: good luck coinciding with great research had proved that the same virus that was in those wild animal markets had somehow infected a human being. The data was so compelling that the committee resolved that afternoon to inform the governor of Guangdong and recommend a culling of civet cats...
...Later I asked Premaratna if we had been in any real danger. "I know of men who have been closer to an angry wild elephant. But none of them are alive," he said, quite deadpan...