Ian Lipkin is leading a team of scientists at Columbia University to investigate the virus.

伊恩·利普金领导着哥伦比亚大学的一个科学家团队对于病毒进行研究。

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"We haven't found evidence of infected pigs," said Ian Lipkin, a Columbia University epidemiologist and member of the World Health Organization's surveillance network.

“我们还没有发现受感染的猪，”哥伦比亚大学流行病学家和世界卫生组织监测网络成员伊恩·利普金说。

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"If you identify IAPV in a colony, the probability is over 96% that this is going to come from a CCD hive," says lead author Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York.

“如果你发现IAPV在集落中，那么该蜂巢有96%的可能性来自CCD的蜂巢。”来自纽约哥伦比亚大学的第一作者Ian Lipkin说道。

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But Columbia University Professor Ian Lipkin, of the Mailman School of Public Health's Centre for Infection and Immunity, a scientific adviser on Contagion, is not convinced that crowdsourcing is an effective way to combat the spread of contagious diseases.

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Dr. Mikovits said it was still too early to know the reasons for the differing results in different labs, and that the Institute was looking forward to participating in a major study under way by the NIH and led by Columbia University scientist Ian Lipkin to help clarify the matter.

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Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.

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