Coronavirus: Italian scientists find perfect match of Wuhan strain in sample taken from boy

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• Discovery made after researchers in Milan review blood tests taken in late 2019 from group of children initially thought to have contracted measles
• Findings ‘advance the beginning of the outbreak to late autumn 2019’, lead scientist says

Stephen Chen in Beijing
Published: 6:00am, 11 Dec, 2020


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The matching coronavirus sample was collected in Milan late last year. Photo: AP

Scientists in Italy have identified a sample of the novel
coronavirus
collected from a young boy late last year that they say is genetically identical to the earliest strain isolated in the Chinese city of Wuhan almost a year ago.
The sample was collected on December 5, 2019 in Milan from a boy who was first thought to have contracted measles, according to the researchers from the University of Milan.
It was a “100 per cent match” of a genome segment of the first Sars-CoV-2 viral strain collected from a seafood market worker in Wuhan on December 26, they said.

Italian scientists find Wuhan coronavirus strain match in sample

Discovery made after researchers in Milan review blood tests taken in late 2019 from group of children initially thought to have contracted measles.

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[kankan326]

In China the first place where the virus was found is a wet market in Wuhan. Now we all know people in wet markets and ports are easy to be infected. Because there are many frozen foods imported from other countries.

 

[onebyone]

Italian boy found with coronavirus more than a year ago could be Europe's first case

Italian boy found with coronavirus more than a year ago could be Europe's first case

A four-year-old Italian boy contracted Covid-19 as far back as November last year, Italian scientists believe, in a discovery that could dramatically rewrite the timeline of the spread of the illness. The finding would suggest that the coronavirus was circulating in Italy much earlier than...

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[vi-va]

This is well known, corona virus existed many years ago in nature, WHO reported.

China is the whistleblower of the whole world.

 

[Beast]

Well, that is the reason it is call Wuhan virus, China virus, kung flu, Winne the flu. You can't change the facts.

I am more than happy to see Indian ravage by Covid-19 and incompetent of Modi

End of the day, its Indian dying. India, a disease riddle filthy country.

 

[j20611]

Well, that is the reason it is call Wuhan virus, China virus, kung flu, Winne the flu. You can't change the facts.

Don’t let that distract you from the fact that Indians surrendered easily

 

[rott]

The first place where the virus was found is a wet market in Wuhan. Now we all know people in wet markets and ports are easy to be infected. Because there are many frozen foods imported from other countries.

Can viruses survive in frozen foods?

 

[kankan326]

Can viruses survive in frozen foods?

Yes. That's why some vaccines have to be packed in -50℃ containers. Vaccines are also viruses.

 

[newb3e]

indians now have a new obsession "China" they fail militarily against China and Pakistan now chankya boys are working overtime to spread lies!

 

[antonius123]

Well, that is the reason it is call Wuhan virus, China virus, kung flu, Winne the flu. You can't change the facts.

Propaganda and bias political jargons are fact? LOL.

 

[Place Of Space]

Well, that is the reason it is call Wuhan virus, China virus, kung flu, Winne the flu. You can't change the facts.

You get the dream goal: America #1, India #2.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Well, that is the reason it is call Wuhan virus, China virus, kung flu, Winne the flu. You can't change the facts.

It is officially called COVID-19 by WHO in case you are too dumb to understand that.
Personally I prefer to called it Modi Virus or India virus since it occurred in the largest number in India in Asia.
Now you don't like it, right.
So stop trolling in here.

 

[zectech]

This is proving the Italians were right months ago.

Italian doctors saw ‘strange pneumonia’ in Lombardy in November

Virus was circulating ‘before we were aware of the outbreak in China’, says Giuseppe Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research.

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Italy's wide outbreak (Nov and before) is before the Chinese outbreak (December), and first cases are earlier than in China.

https://www.thelocal.it/20201117/coronavirus-was-spreading-in-italy-as-far-back-as-september-2019-researchers-claim

Italy was probably not the first to get this. Much of Europe and the US refuses to investigate their early cases, covering up their history of having this before Italy did.

 

[SuperStar20]

It is officially called COVID-19 by WHO in case you are too dumb to understand that.
Personally I prefer to called it Modi Virus or India virus since it occurred in the largest number in India in Asia.
Now you don't like it, right.
So stop trolling in here.

FYI, just search google with Wuhan virus or china virus, you will see the results. That is sad fact, you have to live with it.

 

[I S I]

FYI, just search google with Wuhan virus or china virus, you will see the results. That is sad fact, you have to live with it.

You can search for anything on Google & see the results as you want them to be.