A | CANBERRA, Australia -- A Chinese Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday.Cheng Lei, 48, worked for the international department of China's state broadcaster CCTV. She has reunited with her two children in Melbourne, Albanese said.Her return comes ahead of Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing this year on a date yet to be announced. He will become the first Australian prime minister to visit the Chinese capital in seven years.Albanese said Australia had traded nothing with China for Cheng's release.“Her release follows the completion of judicial processes in China,” he said.China’s Ministry of State Security said that Cheng had been approached by a foreign organization in May 2020 and provided them with state secrets she had obtained on the job in violation of a confidentiality clause signed with her employer. A police statement did not name the organization or say what the secrets were.A court in Beijing convicted her of illegally providing state secrets abroad and she was sentenced to two years and 11 months, the statement said. She was deported Wednesday after serving her sentence, presumably because she had already been detained for that long .“Her return brings an end to a very difficult few years for Ms. Cheng and her family," Albanese said. "The government has been seeking this for a long period of time and her return will be warmly welcomed not just by her family and friends but by all Australians.”The FreeChengLei account on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted a photo of Cheng with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Australia's ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher.The post included a quote, apparently from Cheng, that read: “Tight hugs, teary screams, holding my kids in the spring sunshine. Trees shimmy from the breeze. I can see the entirety of the sky now! Thank you Aussies.”Albanese’s government has been lobbying for the release of Cheng and another Chinese Australian held in China since 2019, Yang Hengjun.Bilateral relations have improved since Albanese's center-left Labor Party was elected after nine years of conservative rule. Beijing has lifted several official and unofficial trade barriers on Australian exports.Albanese's reference to China's judicial system suggested that Cheng had recently been sentenced after she was convicted in a closed-court trial last year on national security charges.Questioned by a reporter, Albanese said China was not acknowledging through Cheng's release that she posed no threat or had been wrongfully detained.“No, China would have not have said that that's the position. China would say that the judicial processes have been completed in China,” Albanese said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the Chinese judicial system tried the case “in accordance with the law, fully safeguarding the rights enjoyed by the person concerned in accordance with the law.”Albanese said he spoke to Cheng in Melbourne, where her children have been living with her mother, and that they discussed a letter she had written to the Australian public in August to mark the third anniversary of her detention. The Chinese-born journalist spoke in her letter about her love for her adopted country.In the letter, she also described her living conditions in detention in China, saying she was allowed to stand in sunlight for just 10 hours a year.“She is a very strong and resilient person ... and when I spoke with her she was delighted to be back in Melbourne,” Albanese said.Albanese did not say whether Yang was also likely to be released.“We continue to advocate for Dr. Yang’s interests, rights and wellbeing with the Chinese authorities at all levels,” Albanese said.Yang, a 58-year-old writer and democracy blogger, told his family in August he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.Yang has been detained in China since January 2019, when he arrived in Guangzhou from New York with his wife and teenage stepdaughter.Yang received a closed-door trial on an espionage charge in Beijing in May 2021 and is still awaiting a verdict.Yang's friend, University of Technology Sydney academic Feng Chongyi, said on Wednesday a verdict had been postponed for three months 11 times and the next possible ruling was January.He said Cheng’s release was good news for Yang. “I do hope Yang is treated in the same way. Given Yang’s poor health, his release is actually more urgent,” Feng said.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed to this report.___This story corrects the name of the Chinese security agency.。 Renee 综合 禽流感在世界各地的迅速蔓延使科学家们越来越担心，这对新西兰的人们、牲畜和本土物种有什么风险？英文《先驱报》科学记者Jamie Morton对相关问题进行了解释。 Advertise with us 什么是禽流感？ 禽流感病毒属于A型流感病毒的亚型，它主要存在于野生水禽和家禽中，可以通过唾液、粘液和粪便等分泌物传播。全球关注的H5N1型禽流感已正式在近1万只野鸟和9000万只家禽中检测到。
B | 这导致全球超过5亿只家禽被宰杀，而野鸟死亡数估计达数百万只。 迄今在哪些地方发现了？ 到目前为止，它已经传播到除大洋洲以外的每个地区，这意味着它还没有传播到新西兰。 去年，该病毒已被证实传播远至南极洲，这是南极地区首次发现禽流感病毒。科研人员在阿根廷南极普里马韦拉站发现了死亡的贼鸥，从它们身上检测到了H5N1病毒。
C | 科学家们为什么担心它的进化？ 这种病毒最早是在20世纪90年代发现的，但自2021年以来，科学家们观察到这种病毒的突变，使其能够大大扩大宿主范围。 奥塔哥大学进化病毒学家Jemma Geoghegan教授说：“它不再只感染某些类型的野生鸟类，而是感染一系列宿主，这使得它能够传播到以前从未发现过的地理区域。” 二十多种哺乳动物也被感染禽流感病毒，包括欧洲的红狐、美国的牛、加拿大的野生熊、丹麦的水貂，以及南北半球的海豹和海狮。 我们对其传播到牛群应该感到多担忧呢？ 目前尚不清楚这种病毒是如何在美国的36个奶牛群中爆发的，可能是通过接触受感染的鸟类。但Geoghegan说证据表明现在它正在奶牛之间传播。 这令人担忧，因为像牛和猪这样的家畜可能会成为“混合容器”，演变出最终可能感染人类的新菌株。
D | Geoghegan 说，“在新西兰，人均牲畜数量比其他任何地方都要多。” “我们目前没有这种病毒，但如果它传播到这里并感染我们的牲畜，那将是非常令人担忧的。” 图片来源：Unsplash 禽流感对人类构成了什么威胁？ 人类感染禽流感的病例非常罕见，据报道只有几百人感染过禽流感，但是这种病例的死亡率高于50%。 然而，世界卫生组织（WHO）和其他机构认为目前对人类的风险是低的。 Geoghegan表示，HN51可能不会进化到在人类之间传播，但它在新的国家和其他哺乳动物物种中的传播“为这种情况的发生提供了更多机会”。 最近，美国发现全球首例“牛传人”禽流感病例，一名出现结膜炎症状的美国农场工人与最近的奶牛感染禽流感有关。
E | 该病例的详细信息被美国得克萨斯州卫生官员和美国疾控与中心发布在《新英格兰医学杂志》上。据悉，这是唯一有记录的禽流感从牛传播到人类的病例。 据悉，该工人最开始的症状是，右眼出现不适并慢慢变红，双眼血管随后出现破裂。据该工人称，他在近期直接接触了患病的奶牛。 这名工人的眼睛和鼻拭子结果显示，他感染了奶牛中传播的同一株禽流感H5N1病毒。
F | 美国农业部最新发布的疫情分析显示，人类感染禽类病毒的情况罕见，这名奶牛场工人的病例于今年3月份被首次报道。
G | 随后，禽流感在美国造成了大范围传播。甚至有专家担心，人类与家畜的广泛接触可能会导致该病毒更容易在人群中传播，并引发全球大流行。 禽流感是否被及时检测到了？ 今年，世界卫生组织首席科学家Jeremy Farrar博士指出，世界各地的公共卫生当局缺乏诊断H5N1的能力。 Geoghegan表示，在被发现之前，这种病毒似乎已经在美国的牛群中传播了一个月。 禽流感会传播到新西兰吗？ 病毒到达新西兰的最大风险是通过候鸟，包括斑尾鹬、红腹滨鹬、翻石鹬和金鸻（bar-tailed godwit, red knot, ruddy turnstone, Pacific golden plover）。
H | 因此，Geoghegan及其同事最近开始在海上，海岸和水鸟之间进行采样，包括鸟类通常进入新西兰的“飞行”地点。 该小组还在研究病毒如何在这里的鸟类中传播，以及更好更快地监测它的方法。 图片来源：PixaBay 我们有什么措施来预防和控制它在新西兰的传播? 初级产业部(MPI)的系统旨在防止它通过其他途径到达这里，并及早发现疑似病例。 如果发生入侵，新西兰生物安全局将带头与保育部(DoC)和卫生部协调统一的应对措施。 MPI说，任何行动，如轨迹控制、接种疫苗或减少种群，“都将取决于受感染的物种和地点”。 禽流感对我们的本土物种意味着什么？ Geoghegan表示：“我们绝大多数的本地物种都是鸟类，以前从未接触过这样的病毒。”她补充说，如果它们的种群感染了，这可能对一些特别濒临灭绝的物种构成潜在的灭绝威胁。 DoC承认选项将是“有限的”，最好的方法是将健康的本地物种种群分散在多个地点。 疫苗接种可能也是一种保护一些核心繁殖种群的方法。
I | 一项试验正在进行中，测试禽流感疫苗对以下鸟类，包括takahē、tūturuatu、red-crowned kākāriki、kakī和kākāpō的效果。 针对人类的疫苗呢？ 与新冠疫苗不同，科学家相信禽流感疫苗可以相对较快地推出，已经有两种选项准备就绪。 包括新西兰在内的大多数发达国家都储存了与禽流感相关的剂量。 卫生部还在为可能发生的禽流感大流行准备一项应对计划。 相关阅读： 多国报告疫情！南极首次发现 澳洲病例激增！600万人感染！2200人死！世卫组织:治不好的，只能预防！ 比新冠严重100倍! 新疫情大爆发: 感染途径不明, 已跨物种, 传染性极强, 千万别吃生鸡蛋 可怕! “僵尸鹿”现踪加美 脑袋被啃光 恐传染给人类! 卫生官: 可能出现高传染新病毒 “三重疫情”席卷加拿大! 感染激增 1天400人病倒! 每年死16万人! 发烧上热搜 可怕! “僵尸鹿”现踪加美 脑袋被啃光 恐传染给人类! 卫生官: 可能出现高传染新病毒 世卫最新警告: 新疫情爆发! 已跨物种, 传染性极强! 致死率56% 111万只鸡因禽流感被扑杀，日本鸡蛋价格同比翻了将近一倍 日本各地陆续出现禽流感疫情 兵库县一日扑杀4.4万只鸡 日本现禽流感疫情 将扑杀约34万只鸡 欧洲禽流感“史无前例” 专家警告“只是开始” 欧洲暴发史上最大规模禽流感，鸡蛋会涨价吗？ “前所未有”！欧洲暴发史上最大规模禽流感 美国今秋火鸡涨价112%！39州禽流感大爆发，中招的鸡+蛋还能吃吗？ 史上最大规模！欧洲突爆新疫情 37国拉响警报 已出现传人 注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。 chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有 (责编：twinkle) 来源 - 相关内容 明晨请减少用电！气温骤降供电不足，可能会停电 奥克兰一辆建筑卡车翻车，撞上工人后逃逸，造成其重伤 躺平没戏了！政府对领失业补贴的人宣布一项强制要求 与去年截然不同！今晨“冬季式寒潮”席卷全国，奥克兰将出现霜冻 Ponsonby枪击案：嫌疑人为帮派成员，受害者姓名公布 突发！Ponsonby枪击案嫌疑男子死亡！ Ponsonby枪击案：警方公布嫌疑人姓名 既当国会议员又当地区议员，他拿两份薪水，总理表示“不接受”，结果……。
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