自7月17日起，一场浩浩荡荡的联署公开信行动正在中国网民之间展开，他们有着一个共同的目标，呼吁世卫组织彻底调查美国德特里克堡生物实验室。

 

公开信表示：

 

2021年6月，一批中国网民曾经联署了一封公开信，要求世界卫生组织调查美国德特里克堡生物实验室。

A group of Chinese netizens drafted a joint¹ open letter to ask the WHO to investigate the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick in June.

 

公开信中表示，为了预防下一场疫情的到来，那些进行危险的病毒乃至生化武器研究的实验室，应该被世界卫生组织重点关注。

They said in the letter that to prevent the next pandemic, the WHO should pay special attention to labs that are conducting studies on dangerous viruses or even on biochemical weapons.

 

公开信特别指出了美国军方的德特里克堡生物实验室。那里存放着全世界最致命也最具传染性的病毒，比如埃博拉病毒、天花病毒，还有SARS病毒、MERS病毒以及如今的新冠病毒。任何一种病毒泄露，都会对全人类带来严重危害。

The open letter particularly noted² the Fort Detrick lab, which stores the deadliest and most infectious viruses in the world, including Ebola, smallpox³, SARS, MERS and the novel coronavirus. A leak of any one of them would pose a severe danger to the world.

 

可该实验室却有着臭名昭著的安全记录!不仅发生过炭疽病菌被盗，致多人死亡和中毒的大丑闻，而且在新冠肺炎疫情大规模出现前夕的2019年秋季，该实验室还出现过一次泄露。可详细信息却被美国方面以国家安全为由隐瞒。

But this lab has a notorious record on lab security. There have been scandals where anthrax bacteria was stolen the lab, leading to the poisoning of many and even death. There was a leak from the lab in the autumn of 2019 right before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but detailed⁴ information had been withheld⁵ by the US under the guise⁶ of national security.

 

这些被美国媒体自己报道出的信息，越来越令世人担忧和怀疑，目前肆虐全球的新冠病毒是否与之有联系。

The information unveiled by US media has worried the world, with some questioning whether the novel coronavirus could be linked to the US lab.

 

更让人们起疑的是，中国出于对溯源研究工作的支持，不仅允许来自西方国家的病毒学者到武汉进行研究，还开放了武汉病毒所给他们乃至美国媒体参观考察。可美国方面至今没有同等地开放美国德特里克堡的实验室，给独立于美国地缘政治影响的中国等国调查。

What is more perplexing is that, when China allowed virologists from Western countries and even US mainstream⁷ media to visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the US has not opened the Fort Detrick lab, let alone shared the original data with countries including China that are independent from US geopolitical influence.

 

美国方面甚至还在刻意忽视和歪曲中国民间要求调查德特里克堡实验室的呼声，一边将这些诉求说成是“阴谋论”，一边在不断用漏洞百出的谣言，污蔑中国的武汉病毒所。

The US even purposely neglected and distorted the Chinese people's call to investigate the Fort Detrick lab - referring to the questions raised in the letter as a "conspiracy⁸ theory," and at the same time, used untenable and flawed rumors⁹ to attack the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

 

只有搞清病毒源头，消除潜在的隐患，才能告慰这些亡魂，并避免下一场大疫情的来袭。可美国方面一直在干扰这一工作的进行，拒绝国际社会彻查其德特里克堡实验室。在已经因为糟糕的防疫工作害死了60余万美国人后，难道美国方面还想拉全世界为其陪葬?

Only by figuring out the origins of the virus can the world eliminate potential hazards, avoid the next round of epidemic¹⁰ and comfort the families of the dead who are seeking answers. However, the US has always been interrupting the work and refusing to allow the international community to investigate the Fort Detrick lab. After its disastrous¹¹ handling of the epidemic that has cost the lives of more than 600,000 Americans, does the US want to draw the whole world to be buried with it?

 

据《环球时报》实时更新的联署链接显示，截至7月21日晚，已有超过500万中国网民联署了这封呼吁世卫组织调查德特里克堡生物实验室的公开信。

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