Dr. Hong Ling (Source: Twitter)
アメリカ国籍の中国人、遺伝学者Hong Ling 博士(53歳）が 2 月6日、武漢のJinyintian Hospital で死亡したことで、Hong Ling博士は、新型ウイルスによるアメリカ人の死亡者、1号となった。北京の米国大使館が発表した。
Hong Ling 博士の略歴
武漢大学を卒業
1987年に渡米
1994年にUniversity of Arizona で博士号を取得後
UC Berkeley でポスト・ドクター・コースを取る
1994年からLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory に勤務
2007年から武漢のHua Zhong University of Science and Technology に勤務
（カルチュラルニュース編集長、東 繁春：中国語の表記がわかりませんので、英文表記のまま、記載しました。中国語の表記をご存じの方がいらっしゃいましたら、東まで、お知らせください。higashi@culturalnews.com へ）
英文出典：Twitter, Washington Post
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Anna Fifield is Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post.
Feb. 8, 2020
Dr. Hong Ling (Source: Twitter)
This is Hong Ling, the 53-year-old geneticist who became the first American to die from coronavirus. He had a Ph.D from the University of Arizona and also worked at the Berkeley lab, studying rare diseases https://washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac
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Coronavirus death toll surpasses fatalities from SARS epidemic; first American and Japanese deaths reported (Washington Post)
By Anna Fifield, Gerry Shih and Marisa Iati
(Saturday) Feb. 8, 2020 at 4:46 p.m. PST
Excerpts are following:
A 53-year-old American citizen died Thursday (Feb. 6) at Jinyintian Hospital in Wuhan, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Saturday.
“We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss,” the embassy said in a statement, without disclosing the person’s name.
“Out of the respect for the family’s privacy, we have no further comment.”
Chinese media reported that the deceased was Hong Ling, a geneticist who specialized in rare human diseases. He was a graduate of Wuhan University who went to study in the United States in 1987, receiving a doctorate in biology from University of Arizona in 1994 before doing postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley.
Hong went on to join the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a Department of Energy lab managed by the University of California, in 1999, according to a report on Sina.com.
He had been on the faculty at Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan since 2007 and was a highly regarded professor who had received numerous national awards, according to local reports.
Some colleagues told the paper that they met Hong in Jan. 21, just before the Lunar New Year holiday, to discuss their research work.
It’s not clear why the U.S. citizen was unable to leave Wuhan, from where the State Department extracted more than 800 people on chartered flights, but it may have been because he was already too sick to travel.
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Anna Fifield is The Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beijing, writing about all aspects of China. She was the Post's bureau chief in Tokyo between 2014 and 2018, writing about Japan and the two Koreas. She is the author of "The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un."
