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hisomehelpplson New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

Thank you, exactly the informed reply I was hoping for. Now let's hope the rest of HN sees this buried half-way down the thread.

hisomehelpplson New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

Nope, not a chance! The news of it being properly isolated, sequenced and placed in a tree directly under bat SARS-like coronavirus that shows they are considered separate:

https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/13/novel-coron...

Another MAJOR key difference here: One is not transmissible to humans and the other is.

hisomehelpplson New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

Can someone explain https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?RID=2PUA1EJK114&CMD... to me?

This is a comparison between 'bat SARS-like coronavirus' and 'Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus'. Under Alignments, it looks like the envelope proteins are identical. Wouldn't that be unlikely for a natural mutation? Would this not lead credence to this being a leak from their BSL-4 lab about twenty miles away from the Wuhan seafood market?

Thanks!