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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by erokar on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:58PM (#22207268)
Parts of the HIV virus have been identified in it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1....

"Our analysis of the spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV revealed several interesting findings: First, we identified 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein that are not present in any other coronavirus reported till date. To our surprise, all the 4 inserts in the 2019-nCoV mapped to It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. bioRxiv preprint first posted online Jan. 31, 2020; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871. The copyright holder for this short segments of amino acids in the HIV-1 gp120 and Gag among all annotated virus proteins in the NCBI database. This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous."

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/122330594672370...

Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by drcode on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:02PM (#22207301)
Other people have written about the HIV-lookalike segment mentioned in that paper and believe it is likely due to chance https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/122336155449582387...
Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by Aperocky on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:17PM (#22207402)
Can it be the jumped from bat to human happened in an immunocompromised individual with HIV?
Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by justinzollars on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:44PM (#22207595)
This paper is not yet peer reviewed. I'm sure this claim will be studied exhaustively in the coming days/weeks.