来源: CGTN
当新冠肺炎疫情席卷全球，个别西方政客为达某种政治目的，开始大肆宣扬各种病毒阴谋论。“新冠病毒是从武汉病毒所泄漏的”，就是其中一种。随着国际学术界逐渐达成“新冠病毒源于自然界”这一共识，此类阴谋论也随之破产。近日，武汉病毒所所长王延轶接受了CGTN的专访，就一系列与新冠病毒相关的问题进行了回应。
Since the first known cases were reported last December, scientists have raced to find the origins of the virus in the hope of developing a vaccine. In the meantime, a blame game is going on, with conspiracy theories ranging from the virus "leaking" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology to China "concealing" crucial information, despite repeated claims from scientists that it originated from nature.
CGTN spoke to Wang Yanyi (Wang), an immunologist and director of the institute, to get her take on these rumors, how she views the outbreak and the progress in cooperating with her international counterparts.
CGTN: Since the outbreak began, there has been speculation that the novel coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. How do you respond to that?
这次疫情发生以来，外界一直有一种这样的声音和说法，认为新冠病毒是从我们武汉病毒所泄漏的，才引发了这次全球流行的这样的一种疫情。您怎么看这个问题?
Wang: This is pure fabrication. Our institute first received the clinical sample of the unknown pneumonia on December 30 last year. After we checked the pathogen within the sample, we found it contained a new coronavirus, which is now called SARS-CoV-2. We didn't have any knowledge before that, nor had we ever encountered, researched or kept the virus. In fact, like everyone else, we didn't even know the virus existed. How could it have leaked from our lab when we never had it?
这种说法完全是无中生有的。因为武汉病毒所最早是在去年的12月底，12月30号，才第一次接触到，当时还是叫不明原因肺炎的临床样本，后来也是经过了这种病原检测的工作，我们才发现这些样本里面其实含有一种以前完全未知的一个全新的冠状病毒，也就是我们现在说的新冠病毒。在这之前我们是完全没有接触过、研究过或者保存过这种病毒，实际上我们也和大家一样，都不知道这种病毒的存在。所以你都没有的东西你怎么去泄漏它呢？
CGTN: An article published in the periodical Nature in April 2018 mentioned a novel coronavirus originating from bats. And this coronavirus was in your lab. Is this the virus that caused the pandemic?
可是我们也同样在2018年4月的《自然》杂志上看到了一篇文章，提到了我们发现了一种来自蝙蝠的新型冠状病毒，这样的一种来自于蝙蝠的新型冠状病毒是在我们研究所的，是不是这个病毒引发了此次疫情？
Wang: In fact, many coronaviruses are called "novel" when they are first discovered, such as MERS (the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), the one you mentioned and SARS-CoV-2. They were all called novel coronaviruses when they were first discovered, which may cause confusion. Actually, the virus mentioned in the 2018 article wasn't SARS-CoV-2. The virus in the article mainly causes diarrhea and death among piglets. It was later named SADS. The genome sequence of SADS is only 50 percent similar to that of SARS-CoV-2. It's a rather big difference.
实际上在很多冠状病毒被发现的当初都被称为新型冠状病毒，比方说更早时候的MERS中东呼吸道综合征的病毒，还有您提到的18年的这篇论文里面的，还包括我们2019的新冠，其实在刚刚发现的时候都被人们称为新型冠状病毒，可能容易造成这种混淆。但实际上18年论文里面的病毒并不是我们这一次造成新冠疫情的那个病毒，那个病毒它主要是造成仔猪的腹泻和死亡，所以后来被我们命名为叫SADS，那个病毒和新冠它基因组的相似性只有50%，所以可以说是差别非常巨大的。
CGTN: But in February, the institute published another article in Nature saying you found another novel coronavirus from bats. The similarity between this virus and the SARS-CoV-2 is up to 96.2 percent, which is relatively high. Could it be the source of the COVID-19 pandemic?
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