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. 2021 Oct 9;398(10308):1299-1303.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02020-1. Epub 2021 Sep 17.

SARS-CoV-2's origin should be investigated worldwide for pandemic prevention

Zhiqiang Wu  1 , Qi Jin  1 , Guizhen Wu  2 , Jian Lu  3 , Mingkun Li  4 , Deyin Guo  5 , Ke Lan  6 , Luzhao Feng  7 , Zhaohui Qian  1 , Lili Ren  1 , Wenjie Tan  2 , Wenbo Xu  2 , Weizhong Yang  7 , Jianwei Wang  8 , Chen Wang  9
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SARS-CoV-2's origin should be investigated worldwide for pandemic prevention

Zhiqiang Wu et al. Lancet. .
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Conflict of interest statement

QJ served as a member of the academic committee of the State Key Laboratory of Virology (SKLV) between 2005 and 2016. SKLV is co-sponsored by Wuhan University and Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He now has no connection with SKLV. GW, WT, and WX are part-time researchers of Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, CAS. DG has given several public lectures or talks at WIV, and has published three joint papers with the scientists of WIV. He is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Virologica Sinica sponsored by WIV, Chinese Society of Microbiology, and Springer. KL is the director of SKLV. He is also an associate editor of Virologica Sinica. He is an employee of Wuhan University and paid solely by Wuhan University. JW was an associate editor of Virologica Sinica between 2017–2019. He is a member of the editorial board of this journal now. ZW, JL, ML, LF, ZQ, LR, WY, and CW declare no competing interests.

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