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In 2019, Wuhan will host the 7th Military World Games. Pan Guangfu watched the whole game on the TV screen.

However, Pan Guangfu, like everyone else, did not expect that since December 2019, after Wuhan hosted the 7th Military World Games, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China has continued to carry out influenza and related disease surveillance, and found multiple cases of viral pneumonia All cases were diagnosed as viral pneumonia/lung infection.

What happened to Wuhan? Pan Guangfu began to pay attention to everything that happened here. Gradually have their own ideas. Regarding the discovery of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan this time, we have to start with an article published in The Lancet.

What kind of publication is The Lancet? Pan Guangfu started the trending search.

The Lancet is one of the oldest and most respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, mainly published by Elsevier Publishing Company, and partially published in collaboration with Reed Elsevier Group. Founded by Thomas Wakley in 1823, he named the publication after the surgical tool "Lancet", and "Lancet" also means "pointed dome window" in English, This implies that the journal aspires to be "a bright window to illuminate the medical world" (to let in light).

With its high impact factor worldwide, The Lancet has an important readership class to support it. The Lancet Medical Journal is regarded as a "core" medical general journal and is also an authoritative journal in world medicine; other publications of the same nature include the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the British Medical Journal.

But Pan Guangfu also found that "The Lancet" is not perfect. It is undeniable that although the Lancet has been exposed for publishing fabricated data articles, the Lancet still maintains its independence and authority in the entire medical community. During the epidemic, among the first batch of articles published by The Lancet, there was Cao Bin of Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital and Wang Jianwei of Peking Union Medical College Medical College as the co-corresponding authors of "Clinical Analysis of Patients with 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infection in Wuhan City". Characteristics”, the paper reports the epidemiology, clinical features, laboratory test data and final clinical outcome of the outbreak. Based on this, large-scale research can be carried out. Wang Chen, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and others published an online commentary in The Lancet, "New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Control under China's Large Population Movement During the Spring Festival". The article pointed out that in the process of fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China has implemented a series of measures to increase social distance, combining "epidemic control holidays" with other measures such as home isolation and grassroots investigations, effectively reducing the rate of disease transmission.

On December 1, 2019, the authoritative magazine "The Lancet" disclosed the first confirmed case. The article stated that when he became ill that day, he had no history of contact with the South China Seafood Wholesale Market.

People cannot easily deny the statement of The Lancet: when they were sick in Wuhan, the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market had no history of contact.

Almost people all over the world suddenly put forward different opinions, and the South China Seafood Wholesale Market is the source of the disease. Soon, the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was blocked.

When Wuhan was invaded by an unknown pneumonia virus, Pan Guangfu strongly realized that this was a harbinger of a great plague.

On December 8, 2019, the Wuhan Health Commission notified the first confirmed case of the disease. On December 15, a deliveryman in the Huanan Seafood Market developed a fever. The eyes of the world are gathered at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan. Pan Guangfu began to search for information about this market.

Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, also known as Huanan Seafood Market, is a professional seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Located in the Jinjiadun area of Hankou, Jianghan District, at the junction of Development Avenue (Second Ring Road) and Xinhua Road, near Hankou Railway Station, and close to Huanan Guopi (South China Fruit Wholesale Market), which is also affiliated to Wuhan South China Real Estate Group Co., Ltd., is Wuhan and Central China The largest seafood and aquatic products wholesale trading market in the region. The total construction area of the market is 50,000 square meters, the investment amount is nearly 50 million yuan, and there are more than 1,000 operating households. Because it was the initial outbreak site of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak, the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan has become the focus of public opinion.

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market has been established for more than 15 years. It has been expanded twice in three months since its opening. Today, the market has a total construction area of 50,000 square meters, an investment of nearly RMB 50 million, and more than 1,000 operating households. The market resettled hundreds of laid-off workers to ease the pressure on the government. It has been awarded the honorary title of "Wuhan Civilized Market" many times. The market was established earlier than Hankou Railway Station. It was originally located in the Jinjiadun area outside the second ring road of Development Avenue, which was remote and desolate. It became prosperous after the opening of Hankou Station. The seafood market on the first floor is divided into east and west areas. There are 12 commercial streets in the east area, and each street has about 8 shops, which mainly sell meat. There are 15 streets in the West District, which are mainly engaged in aquatic products, seafood, and condiments. The second floor is South China Glasses City, with more than 100 merchants.

There is management chaos in the South China Seafood Wholesale Market. On August 5, 2009, a fire broke out in the South China Seafood Wholesale Market, and many shops dealing in dry goods suffered serious losses. The fire was caused by the careless operation of welding by one of the merchants during decoration. On November 29 of the same year, a seafood shop in the South China Seafood Market caught fire, and some store staff on duty jumped off to escape. One of the women suffered a comminuted fracture of her lumbar spine. In September 2012, according to the "Chutian Metropolis Daily" report, there were "traffic chaos" on Xinhua West Road in front of the South China Seafood Market, such as trucks parked indiscriminately, which needed to be managed. According to media reports in 2013, thousands of catties of dead shrimp flow into food stalls and some restaurants every day in the South China Seafood Wholesale Market. In February 2014, according to the "Wuhan Morning Post" report, there was a large amount of household garbage in the grass in the green belt next to the South China Seafood Wholesale Market, and the garbage was thrown by the truck drivers who came to the Seafood City to deliver and receive the goods. In 2017, during the sampling inspection and monitoring of fresh and live aquatic products organized by the State Food and Drug Administration, 66 batches of unqualified samples were detected, among which malachite green was detected in fish from two merchants in the South China Seafood Wholesale Market.

The South China Seafood Wholesale Market has repeatedly experienced counterfeiting and "short catties and less taels". In April 2008, the "Wuhan Morning Post" reported that some vendors in the South China Seafood Market taught retailers and restaurant purchasers to cheat, such as "wild soft-shelled turtles soaked in potassium permanganate water", and offered to help "substitute processing". In September 2011, 348 kilograms of fake and shoddy crabs were found in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market of Tangjiadun Industrial and Commercial Office of Jianghan Industrial and Commercial Branch. In October, it was discovered that a group of merchants used electronic scales suspected of fraud to overcharge consumers. In October 2013, "Chutian Metropolis Daily" disclosed that many merchants in the South China Seafood Wholesale Market had the phenomenon of "short catties and less taels". A crab weighing 1 catty and 9 taels was weighed as 3 catties and 4 taels. Consumers will spend an extra 90 yuan.

South China Seafood Wholesale Market is owned by Wuhan South China Seafood Market Co., Ltd., which is affiliated to Wuhan South China Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. The business scope includes market property management and parking lot operation; wholesale and retail of aquatic products and primary agricultural products; food sales. Its legal representative is Yu Tian, and his younger brother Yu Qize is a shareholder. Zhao Hong, the ex-wife of Yu Tian's father Yu Zhusheng, managed the South China Seafood Market from 1999 to 2006. Zhao Hong's management period coincided with the SARS and bird flu periods. The market was disinfected every day, and no infection occurred. The market is responsible for the supply of pork for many large bazaars in the north of the Yangtze River, and also sells game (such as spotted frogs, snakes, hedgehogs and other animals). There are many kinds of seafood in the market, and the size can be selected, including dry goods, frozen products, and chilled products. The market will also provide procurement services to various hotels and companies, and is the distribution center for many hotels in the city. Business households usually open at four or five in the morning and open for about 12 hours. In 2011, the transaction volume of the South China Seafood Wholesale Market reached 1.3 to 1.5 billion yuan, and it continued to grow. In 2013, affected by the H7N9 epidemic, the Huanan Seafood Market was asked to reduce transactions and ship as soon as possible, but the market was not closed.

On June 27, 2019, people complained about the dirty and messy South China Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan on the complaint message section of People's Daily Online, but the Wuhan Municipal Government did not respond or resolve it. The Dazhong Livestock Wholesale Center located at Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 11, Fujie Street, East District, South China Seafood Market, Wuhan, was included in the list of abnormal operations on July 5, 2019, on the grounds that it did not report in accordance with the "Annual Reporting Measures for Individual Industrial and Commercial Households" Submit the annual report.

On the morning of September 25, 2019, multiple departments in Wuhan City jointly carried out a special inspection of the wild animal business market. No illegal business behavior was found. Law enforcement officers checked the approval documents and business licenses of nearly 8 merchants for wildlife business licenses and business licenses, and their operations were strictly prohibited. Unapproved wild animals. The person in charge of the South China Seafood Market said: "We will increase the inspection of merchants' purchase certificates and invoices. Once they find that the merchants have illegal operations, they will report to the law enforcement department as soon as possible and clear them out of the market."

Pan Guangfu told Chai Jianhua and He Jiafu two elderly people about pneumonia patients of unknown cause in Wuhan. He said that since Wuhan held the 7th Military World Games, since December 2019, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China has continued to carry out influenza and related epidemics. Disease surveillance found multiple cases of viral pneumonia, all diagnosed as viral pneumonia/lung infection. However, these things are actually related to the South China Seafood Market. He, like everyone else, hadn't expected it.

The three brothers and sisters of Nanyangsheng also sat and listened to Pan Guangfu tell those confusing stories about the epidemic to Chai Jianhua and He Jiafu. The three young people were curious, but also fearful and uneasy.