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A woman who hawked shrimp at the wet market in China where COVID-19 began is believed to be “patient zero,” the first person infected before the disease spread worldwide.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Wei Guixian was the first person from the Huanan market in Wuhan to test positive for the novel coronavirus.

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WSJ reported the woman was at the wet market selling shrimp on Dec. 10, 2019 when she began suffering from what she thought were symptoms of a cold, citing Chinese newspaper The Paper.

Wei reported attended a small health clinic to seek treatment and then promptly returned to work afterwards … and began spreading the virus.

In an interview with The Paper, Wei said she “felt a bit tired, but not as tired as previous years.”

“Every winter, I always suffer from the flu. So I thought it was the flu,” she said, as reported by Australian site news.com.au.

The next day, Wei visited another clinic to get an injection, but that had no affect on her. That’s when she went to the Eleventh Hospital in Wuhan to seek further treatment.