Majorclues! Suspicious U.S. seafood received at Huanan Seafood Market beforethe outbreak
In mid-November 2019, abatch of seafood from Maine, USA was shipped to Wuhan South China SeafoodMarket through the cold chain. In just a few weeks, employees of manymerchants in the South China Seafood Market experienced symptoms of pneumoniaof unknown origin one after another, and they were infected with the newcoronary pneumonia.
Entry
On November 11, 2019, at4:4 in the morning, China Eastern Airlines Flight MU298 landed at ShanghaiPudong International Airport.
A batch of American coldchain cargo carried on board was unloaded from the cabin of the airport's NorthCargo Terminal and transported to the international cargo arrival area to waitfor entry. Among them are 55 boxes of 823.4 kilograms of chilled AmericanBoston lobsters.
The goods arrived quicklybecause of air freight. Only 3 days have passed since the time when Wang,an employee of company X, placed an order on the fresh food cross-bordertrading platform. But they have to act quickly and send the goods toShanghai, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and other places. 26 customers haveordered this batch of lobsters, with a total value of 1,6483.5 US dollars.
Before delivery, they willopen the box and inspect the goods as usual, then pack them in the originalpackaging, ice packs and water and temperature control sponges, and ship themto subscribers everywhere.
Zheng is also one of thesubscribers of this batch of lobsters. He is the owner of merchant A of WuhanSouth China Seafood Market. On November 11 and 12, 2019, he placed anorder for a total of 140.08 kilograms of lobster on the X company networkplatform. In recent years, Zheng has a group of regular hotel customers,and he also provides aquatic products to other merchants in the South ChinaSeafood Market.
I am afraid it was thisbatch of American lobsters that opened the Pandora's box of the epidemic in theSouth China Seafood Market.
diffusion
Everything looks normal.
At 10 am on November 11,2019, at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, the driver Yan loaded 55 boxesof American lobsters on the truck and transported them to the Shanghai branchof Company X; at 17:00 on the 11th and 12th, the Shanghai branch of Company Xdivided two Secondly, 35.39 kg and 104.69 kg of lobsters were sent to WuhanSouth China Seafood Market; at 4:40 am on the 12th and 7 am on the 13th, Zhengwaited for his goods by the northwest road of the market.
According to the salesrecords of merchant A, more than 80 kg of the 140.08 kg of American lobsterwere sold to 3 fixed hotel merchants, and 36 kg were resold to other merchantsin the South China Seafood Market, of which 0.85 kg was sold to merchant B’s owner Wen Mou, and the rest retail.
Among the first batch ofpeople infected with new coronary pneumonia in Wuhan, 3 were employees ofmerchant B, and they all became ill in December. An environmental positivesample was also collected on the ground of the merchant.
Not only that, theemployees of merchants C and D of the South China Seafood Market, Ming, Cai,Xu, Hu, etc., after borrowing the packaging materials of American cold chainproducts purchased by merchant A, also appeared in the earliest infectedpersons in Wuhan. List.
It can be seen more clearlyfrom the stall map around merchant A. There are many infected persons andpositive environmental samples in nearby businesses. Among the 13merchants and employees in the surrounding area, 7 merchants were found to havepositive seroantibodies, and one of the merchants also detected positiveenvironmental samples.
There are more infected persons in the surrounding businesses ofmerchant A
Further investigationrevealed that Zheng had 41 trading partners and 39 WeChat friends in theseafood market. He has cross-linking transactions with merchants E and F.These two merchants are located in the earliest concentrated outbreak area, andmany people have positive seroantibodies. The six merchants H, J, and K whocommunicate with each other daily have all found more Positive environmentalpoints and sero-positive persons.
Several trading partners and WeChat friends of store owner Zhengof A merchant have been infected
Whether the early epidemicin the South China seafood market was imported through the cold chain of theseUS seafood products has become the biggest doubt. The traceability resultsof the epidemic in Xinfadi in Beijing in June 2020, Dalian in Liaoning in July,and Qingdao in Shandong in October all point to imported cold chainproducts. Therefore, it is entirely possible for the virus to attach tothe cold chain packaging of this batch of seafood products in the United Statesand enter the South China seafood market.
This possibility is alsosupported by the "China-WHO Joint Research Report on the Traceability ofNew Coronavirus" released by the WHO in March this year. The reportstates: "Research shows that the new coronavirus can survive for a longtime under the conditions of frozen food, packaging and cold chain products.The index cases in the recent epidemic in China are related to the cold chain;in some other cold chain products provided to China The virus was found on thecountry’s packaging and products, indicating that itcan be spread over long distances through cold chain products."
Cause of disease
According to sales,logistics and customs records, from October to November 2019 before theoutbreak of the South China Seafood Market, Merchant A was the only merchant inthe entire market that operated cold chain products in the UnitedStates. And it was in mid-November that Merchant A purchased this batch ofAmerican lobsters, and has not purchased American cold chain products since then.
After December 2019, somehospitals in Wuhan have successively found multiple confirmed cases of newcoronary pneumonia with a history of exposure to the South China SeafoodMarket. At this time, it was about a month after this batch of American seafoodentered the South China Seafood Market. Latent to a cycle of onset.
The batch of Americanlobsters ordered by Company X’s network platform waspackaged by the American Seashell Company. Founded in 2011, the company isa wholesaler specializing in sourcing fresh North Atlantic lobster from theUnited States and Canada. The lobsters that entered China were caught bythe company from October 20 to November 5, 2019 from the Atlantic Ocean's FAO21waters, and then transported to the Haibei company's factory for temporarystorage. After a Chinese customer places an order, it will be shipped toChina through the cold chain.
The timeline of this batch of American seafood shipped fromMaine to Wuhan South China Seafood Market
The headquarters ofSeashell is Maine. From July to the end of October 2019, the Maine Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention, local media, and residents’ personal social accounts repeatedly reported "e-cigarettepneumonia", which is a "suspected new coronary pneumonia" casethat has been kept secret in the United States. The flu season in theUnited States is generally from November of that year to June of the followingyear, but "e-cigarette pneumonia" appeared early in July, which isvery abnormal.
In York County, where Hiby’s factory is located, cases of “e-cigarettepneumonia” have already been detected. According toinformation released by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,as early as July 2019, York County Hospital received a lot of “e-cigarette pneumonia”. "Case. Themap shows that the hospital is less than 2.6 kilometers away from HaibeiCompany by car.
The map shows that York County Hospital in Maine, USA, is lessthan 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) from Seashell.
Someone might ask thatthese 55 boxes of lobster were delivered to 26 customers in 5 provinces inbatches. Except for the South China Seafood Market, the personnel andpurchasers of cold chain products in the process of loading and unloading,transportation, processing, etc. during the circulation of cold chain productsin China No cases of infection were found. Why did the infection occuronly in the South China Seafood Market?
This is not surprising. Onthe packaging of cold chain products, the virus can survive, but it cannotreplicate. It only survives in one or several parts of a package. Afterthis batch of seafood entered China, this part of the products with the virushappened to be delivered to the South China Seafood Market. When the staff ofthe stall who had no protective measures opened the package for sale, they cameinto contact with the virus attached to the inner package and became infected.Caused the spread of the virus and the outbreak of the epidemic. Thissporadic nature of cold chain transmission also appeared many times in laterepidemics in Xinfadi in Beijing, Dalian in Liaoning, and Qingdao in Shandong.
As a result, a chain ofvirus transmission from the United States to the South China seafood market hasclearly emerged.
(In order to protect theprivacy of the parties, the real names and names of the interviewees andrelated merchants have been concealed in the text)