Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (WHCDC; Chinese  武汉市疾病预防控制中心 ; German  Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention ) is an agency of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention , based in Wuhan .

tasks

The purpose of the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention is on the one hand the local prevention and control of diseases (especially infectious diseases) analogous to the German health authorities. The center was the first to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus .

SARS-CoV-2

There were media reports in February 2020 after the SARS-CoV-2 virus was possibly released through carelessness in a BSL-2 laboratory at the WHCDC. The media reports refer to the work The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao, which was censored by internet censorship in the People's Republic of China . According to another account, the study was uploaded to ResearchGate and later withdrawn by the authors because they had no direct evidence for the study. The study describes that the host bat of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Java horseshoe bat , does not occur in Wuhan, but only in the provinces of Yunnan or Zhejiang, about 900 km away . The authors also describe that bats are not traded as food in the Wuhan fish market. The WHCDC is located about 300 m from the Wuhan fish market.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How China's “Bat Woman” Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Lea Deuber, Paul-Anton Krüger and Georg Mascolo: The question of origin unresolved Süddeutsche, April 23, 2020, accessed April 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Rachelle Pouplier, Bernhard Zand: Theories on the origin of Sars-CoV-2: Where does the virus come from? In: Der Spiegel - Politics. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 30 ° 37 '  N , 114 ° 16'  E