In 2002, researchers in New York created a synthetic polio virus.

2002年，纽约的研究人员人工合成出脊髓灰质炎病毒。

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It was not the first artificial virus; a team at the State University of New York, in Stony Brook, had made a copy of the polio virus the previous year.

这却并非第一个人工病毒；前一年，纽约州立大学石溪分校的一个小组复制了脊髓灰质炎病毒。

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A team at the State University of New York, in Stony Brook, had made a copy of the polio virus the previous year.

前一年，纽约州立大学石溪分校的一个小组复制了脊髓灰质炎病毒。

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According to an investigation by the CDC and New York city and state health officials, a kidney transplant recipient contracted the virus from a donor in an unnamed New York City hospital in 2009.

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That death comes a day after an assistant principal from New York died after contracting the H1N1 virus.

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New York (CNN) -- Two more infants have contracted the herpes virus after undergoing an ultra-Orthodox Jewish type of circumcision, which has been linked to the spread of the potentially deadly virus to newborn boys, according to the New York City Health Department.

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