Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Speculation persists that the Covid 19 virus escaped from this research centre. There are no local photographs of the building but it does match pictures from Wikipedia. Similarly there is no street view.









en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology


Wuhan Institute of Virology..kmz (849 B)

I've seen the "wet market" described as not far from the lab. I wonder where "not far" might be. I tried a few search words in the GE search bar, but it was kind of hopeless.

Much later: Here it is according to the WHO in March this year. Of course, the debate is still active regarding whether Covid-19 crossed the animal-human barrier in the lab, the market, the village, or somewhere else. 

Diane :-  When you search for the 'Wuhan Institute of Virology' two locations show up.  The one I marked (at 30 degrees 22' 35.61" N  114 degrees 15' 45.44" E) matched media pictures of the institute.  However the second one is at ( 30 degrees 32' 21.40" N  114 degrees 21' 03.48" E) 20 Km NNE of my marker.  This one is perhaps linked to Wuhan University.  This one looks more favorable for the presence of a wet market.  I hope you can find the wet market, that would be a great correction!

The Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market was believed to be the epicenter of the virus, December, 2020. 


Hyanan Whoesale Seafood Market.kmz (716 B) (Typo in the file title. Huanan is correct.)

"New Data Leads To Rethinking (Once More) Where The Pandemic Actually Began" ( All info from NPR.org)

 A group of leading virologists and other scientists have completed a mapping of the earliest cases of Covid-19, from 8-11 Dec 2019 to 27-31 Dec 2019. They plotted the cases on a map and added the location of the Wuhan Lab. It is 10 miles away from the Huanan wet market (black square), while the disease actually appeared first in the market and spread from there. 

Wuhan Lab is marked as a black square.


Visit the website to see the subsequent spread on the map through 31 December. Remarkably, the first group to look into the origin of the virus, the World Health Organization, had not used this sleuthing method. " 'I do think transmission from another species, without a lab escape, is the most likely scenario by a long shot,' " says evolutionary biologist Michael Worobey at the University of Arizona." Worobey has been nicknamed the Sherlock Holmes of pandemics. For example, his investigative "work has helped explain how the 1918 flu emerged and how HIV came to the U.S. earlier than people thought."

 

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