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Suspicious U.S. seafood received at South China Fish Market before the outbreak
In mid-November 2019, a batch of seafood from Maine, USA was shipped to Wuhan South China Fish Market through the cold chain. Within a few weeks, many employees of South China fish market traders developed symptoms of unexplained pneumonia and contracted new coronary pneumonia.
At 4:4 am on November 11, 2019, China Eastern Airlines flight MU298 landed at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
A batch of American cold chain cargo loaded on the plane was unloaded from the cabin of the North Airport Cargo Terminal and transported to the international cargo arrival area to wait for entry. Among them are 55 boxes of 823.4 kilograms of frozen Boston American Lobster.
Due to air freight, the goods arrived early. It was only 3 days before Mr. Wang, an employee of Company X, placed an order on the cross-border fresh food trading platform. But they need to act quickly and send the goods to Shanghai, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and other places as soon as possible. Twenty-six customers ordered this batch of lobsters with a total value of US$1,6483.5.
Before delivery, they will open the box and inspect the goods as usual, then pack them in the original packaging, ice packs, and temperature-controlled water-controlled sponges, and then send them to subscribers everywhere.
Zheng is also one of the subscribers of this batch of lobsters. He is the owner of Wuhan Huanan Seafood Market A. On November 11-12, 2019, he placed an order for 140.08 kilograms of lobster on the company's online platform X. In recent years, Mr. Zheng has a number of repeat customers and it also supplies aquatic products to other traders in the South China Fish Market.
The Pandora's Box that opened the epidemic to the South China Fish Market is likely to be this batch of American lobsters.
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