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Originally Posted by Pierre
It’s like a like a deadly strain of measles suddenly appeared out of Birmingham, and situated in Birmingham was the “Birmingham measles experimental and developmental laboratory”. What are the chances….?
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Wuhan is a big city though. It's larger than London. And China has a lot of coronaviruses strains in its animal population so it's not surprising a major population centre in China has a lab studying a virus endemic to China.
In your example, if there was a virus endemic to the U.K, a type of virus of which different strains emerged all the time, then it would be perfectly feasible that there could both be a lab studying them and a new outbreak both in Birmingham.
It's hardly an extraordinary coincidence.