來源: CGTN
當新冠肺炎疫情席卷全球，個別西方政客為達某種政治目的，開始大肆宣揚各種病毒陰謀論。“新冠病毒是從武漢病毒所泄漏的”，就是其中一種。隨著國際學術界逐漸達成“新冠病毒源於自然界”這一共識，此類陰謀論也隨之破產。近日，武漢病毒所所長王延軼接受了CGTN的專訪，就一系列與新冠病毒相關的問題進行了回應。
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?
這次疫情發生以來，外界一直有一種這樣的聲音和說法，認為新冠病毒是從我們武漢病毒所泄漏的，才引發了這次全球流行的這樣的一種疫情。您怎麼看這個問題?
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?
這種說法完全是無中生有的。因為武漢病毒所最早是在去年的12月底，12月30號，才第一次接觸到，當時還是叫不明原因肺炎的臨床樣本，後來也是經過了這種病原檢測的工作，我們才發現這些樣本裡面其實含有一種以前完全未知的一個全新的冠狀病毒，也就是我們現在說的新冠病毒。在這之前我們是完全沒有接觸過、研究過或者保存過這種病毒，實際上我們也和大家一樣，都不知道這種病毒的存在。所以你都沒有的東西你怎麼去泄漏它呢？
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?
可是我們也同樣在2018年4月的《自然》雜志上看到了一篇文章，提到了我們發現了一種來自蝙蝠的新型冠狀病毒，這樣的一種來自於蝙蝠的新型冠狀病毒是在我們研究所的，是不是這個病毒引發了此次疫情？
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.
實際上在很多冠狀病毒被發現的當初都被稱為新型冠狀病毒，比方說更早時候的MERS中東呼吸道綜合征的病毒，還有您提到的18年的這篇論文裡面的，還包括我們2019的新冠，其實在剛剛發現的時候都被人們稱為新型冠狀病毒，可能容易造成這種混淆。但實際上18年論文裡面的病毒並不是我們這一次造成新冠疫情的那個病毒，那個病毒它主要是造成仔豬的腹瀉和死亡，所以後來被我們命名為叫SADS，那個病毒和新冠它基因組的相似性只有50%，所以可以說是差別非常巨大的。
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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