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Lab leak 'extremely unlikely'
世卫：病毒泄露可能性极低
It is "extremely unlikely" that the novel coronavirus spread to humans through a laboratory leak, a team of international experts from the World Health Organization said during a news conference in Wuhan on Tuesday, adding that future studies into the origin of the virus will not be "geographically bound".
2月9日，世界卫生组织国际专家组在武汉举行的一场新闻发布会上表示，实验室病毒泄露导致新冠病毒传播的可能性“微乎其微”，未来对新冠病毒溯源的研究不会局限于某个地域。
Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO expert on animal disease and food safety, heads a 17-member international team of experts convened by the WHO for origin-tracing of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan together with Chinese experts from Jan 14 to Feb 9.
世卫食品安全和人畜共患疾病项目负责人彼得·本·安巴雷克是世界卫生组织新冠病毒溯源国际专家组组长，从1月14日至2月9日，国际专家组17人与中方专家组在武汉展开实地考察。
Their work in China has shown that the most likely path for the introduction of the virus to the human population was through an intermediary species, Embarek said, adding that the possibility of two other routes examined by the team - from an animal host to humans and transmission through cold or frozen food - have not been ruled out.
安巴雷克表示，通过此次考察发现，病毒通过中间宿主引入人类是最可能的一种路径，另外两条路径，动物直接传人以及冷冻食品传播的可能性也不能排除。
