真相放大镜 | 请美国做榜样，开放军方实验室接受国际社会独立调查

The U.S. has established more than 200 biological laboratories around the world. Many of them are in countries close to Russia or China. According to a 2011 report by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, these military labs around the world have been conducting research on a wide range of infectious diseases and epidemics. 

美国在全世界建立了200多个生物实验室，其中有很多实验室位于离俄罗斯或中国很近的国家。根据位于华盛顿的“战略与国际研究中心”2011年的一份研究报告，世界各地的这些军事实验室一直在对各种传染病和流行病进行研究。

Yet we know very little about the processes and their purposes. But what does the U.S. need all these labs for? Why are these facilities researching deadly biological technologies? Is it simply because they are looking for cures?

然而，我们对其建立实验室的过程和目的知之甚少。美国需要这些实验室做什么？为什么这些设施要研究致命的生物技术？仅仅是因为他们在寻找治疗方法吗？

In Fort Detrick, Maryland, the U.S. Army has cutting-edge laboratory facilities researching viruses. But the lab was temporarily shut down in August 2019. What really happened? The authorities did not give specific details. 

在马里兰州的德特里克堡，美国陆军拥有尖端的实验室设施来研究病毒。但实验室在2019年8月暂时关闭。到底发生了什么？当局没有透露具体细节。

But while the lab was closing, Maryland reported a number of pneumonia cases, or an illness sharing similarities with pneumonia. Later, they were announced as e-cigarettes-related symptoms by the authorities, even though people had doubts about the diagnosis. In 1951, a microbiologist who worked at the lab died of a rare contagious disease. In 1975, the army admitted that the man actually died of anthrax from the lab. They had falsified his death certificate.

后来，当局宣布这些症状与电子烟有关，尽管人们对诊断有疑问。1951年，一位在实验室工作的微生物学家死于一种罕见的传染病。1975年，军方承认这名男子实际上死于实验室炭疽。他们伪造了他的死亡证明。

In 2008, Bruce Ivins, a top U.S. biodefense scientist committed suicide after the Department of Justice investigated him. He had worked at Ft. Detrick labs for 18 years on anthrax. In 2015, residents of Ft. Detrick expressed deep concerns over the safety of the labs, but the government refused to share information. 

2008年，在接受美国司法部调查后，美国首席生物防御科学家布鲁斯•伊文斯自杀身亡。他在德特里克堡生物实验室工作了18年，研究炭疽细菌。2015年，德特里克堡的居民对实验室的安全表示深切关注，但政府拒绝公开更多信息。

Nancy Kingsbury, then managing director for Applied Research at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, testified at the House of Representatives in 2014. She admitted that in June and July that year there were two serious incidents of virus mishandling in two different labs run by the CDC and the NIH. 

时任美国政府问责办公室应用研究部主管的南希•金斯伯里于2014年在众议院作证时承认：同年6月和7月，在美国疾控中心和国家卫生研究中心管理的两个不同的实验室里，发生了两起病毒处理不当的严重事件。

Some American politicians have accused China of lying about the COVID-19 outbreak. 

一些美国政客指责中国隐瞒了新冠疫情的真相。

But in February China facilitated and cooperated with a WHO team of experts to conduct an onsite investigation in Wuhan. 

但今年2月，中国与世卫组织专家组合作，在武汉进行了实地调查。

Biosafety incidents happen in the U.S. from time to time, how do we know that it won't happen again? Will the U.S. allow the WHO to send experts to probe army labs? We deserve an answer.

美国生物安全事件时有发生，我们怎么知道今后不会再发生？美国会允许世界卫生组织派遣专家去调查军方实验室吗？我们应该得到回答。

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