> Serological evidence for SARS CoV in human beings working in these markets, taken together with the earliest cases of SARS in restaurant workers, supports the contention of a potential zoonotic origin for SARS. WHERE NEXT? Will SARS reappear?
I'm not saying we should discount this, and in fact it's a reasonable hypothesis.
But the fact remains it's still under investigation; we do not (yet) know where and how it originated for certain, or whether the origin was an exotic meat wet market.
Even that bats were involved is not certain.
If we do not know this, we cannot know whether closing exotic meat wet markets is a major thing we can do to stop these pandemics.
Ah! The blame game. I'm uninterested in the obsession with blaming the CCP for everything. This and similar pandemics are mankind's problem. China and the ruling party want to solve it too, regardless of how they initially (mis)handled the situation.
We may or may not find patient zero and/or the root cause of the pandemic, but blaming the CCP is pointless.
It's not like other huge parts of the world don't have raw meat wet markets with unsanitary conditions, either. And that's if they were the cause for the pandemic to begin with.
> Serological evidence for SARS CoV in human beings working in these markets, taken together with the earliest cases of SARS in restaurant workers, supports the contention of a potential zoonotic origin for SARS. WHERE NEXT? Will SARS reappear?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14738798
And this is not the only person speculating this, you can find many people discussing this same thing many years prior to the pandemic.