“Sep 27, 1996
Type A-Wuhan flu virus can be deadly to elderly
The Type A-Wuhan virus, which can lead to deadly complications in the elderly, is the most dangerous of three viruses expected around the nation.
The good news is that the current flu vaccine counteracts all three.”
Sep 27, 1996, page 6 – The Springfield News-Leader at Newspapers.com
Experts said someone ate a bat in Wuhan.
The wet market sources of Covid-19: bats and pangolins have an alibi | University of Oxford
The wet market may actually feature. Chinese often have extracurricular businesses and it is plausible that the lab techs were selling the slightly-used lab animals on the side, especially rhesus monkeys.
This is pure speculation on my part, but when you have baby milk being spiked with melamine and tumeric powder adulterated with lead chromate, it would be in character to make a buck on the side from the test animals.