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さらに、これを後押しするかのような論文を習近平国家主席が自ら、中国共産党が発行する理論誌「求是」に発表。3月16日に発行された同誌上で、「（新型コロナウイルスの）病原がどこから来て、どこに向かったのか明らかにしなければいけない」と訴えた。
しかし当然ながら、その「どこから来たのか」をいち早く指摘した肖氏らの論文には一切、触れなかった。論文は消え、研究者も消え――中国政府にとってなんとも都合のいい話だが、「嘘も重ねれば真実になる」を地で行く態度には、呆れるほかない。
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（以下、肖氏らの論文の原文を転載する）
〈The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus〉 (Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao)
The 2019-nCoV coronavirus has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human.
An article published on The Lancet reported that 41 people in Wuhan were found to have the acute respiratory syndrome and 27 of them had contact with Huanan Seafood Market. The 2019-nCoV was found in 33 out of 585 samples collected in the market after the outbreak. The market was suspicious to be the origin of the epidemic, and was shut down according to the rule of quarantine the source during an epidemic.
The 2019-nCoV coronavirus has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human.
An article published on The Lancet reported that 41 people in Wuhan were found to have the acute respiratory syndrome and 27 of them had contact with Huanan Seafood Market. The 2019-nCoV was found in 33 out of 585 samples collected in the market after the outbreak. The market was suspicious to be the origin of the epidemic, and was shut down according to the rule of quarantine the source during an epidemic.
中村 淳彦
村上 和巳
真野 俊樹
いしいさや
近藤 大介
