At the same time, the incident of a paper being deleted has also attracted the attention of netizens.
Xiao Botao, a professor at the School of Biological Sciences and Engineering of South China University of Technology, recently published a report entitled "Source Possibility of New Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)" on the scientific paper sharing website Research Gate.
According to the summary on the website, the report was suspicious of the claim that the seafood market was the source of the virus, citing a municipal report and testimony from 31 residents and 28 tourists that bats were never a source of food in Wuhan and there were no bat trades in the market. The content then points to the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which may be 280 meters from the seafood market.
According to the report summary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has captured 155 bats in Hubei Province and 450 in Zhejiang Province for experimental purposes. It also mentions that the researcher responsible for collecting bats mentioned in national newspapers and websites in 2017 and 2019 that he had been attacked by bats, during which the blood of the bats was sprayed on his skin. Knowing the extreme danger of infection, he quarantined himself for 14 days. In another accident, bats pissed on him, allowing him to isolate himself again.
Based on this evidence, researchers worry that bat tissue samples and contaminated trash in the center may be the source of the pathogen, leaked to the surrounding area, and infected the first patients. However, the paper was deleted shortly after it was published, and it is no longer available on scientific paper sharing sites. But the cover and abstract of this paper can still be found on the Internet.