刚果民主共和国（刚果金）政府数据显示，该国正经历历史上最严重的一次埃博拉疫情，累计报告病例超过8000例，其中近4000人死亡。
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded over 8,000 cases of Ebola including almost 4,000 deaths, amid the worst outbreak in the country’s history according to government data.
刚果金公共卫生研究所周一发布的最新报告显示，病例数为8067例，死亡人数为3901人，病死率达48.4%。
The latest report, published on Monday by the DRC’s public health institute, put the number of cases at 8,067 and deaths at 3,901, representing a fatality rate of 48.4 percent.
自5月15日疫情被正式宣布以来，民众对政府政策的不信任和愤怒情绪已成为控制疫情的一大障碍。执政的UDPS党一名资深成员因通过广播宣传疫情防治知识而遭人殴打致死，该党一名代表周一表示。这起杀戮事件发生于周日的北基伍省布滕博市。该省已成为当前埃博拉疫情的重灾区。
People’s mistrust and anger towards government policies have become a major obstacle in limiting the outbreak since it was officially declared on May 15. A senior member of the ruling UDPS party was beaten to death after raising awareness about the epidemic on radio, a party representative said on Monday. The killing happened on Sunday in Butembo in North Kivu province, which has become a hotspot in the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
非洲联盟卫生机构非洲疾控中心表示，病例数在快速增加后已趋于稳定，但仍认为疫情“尚未得到控制”。
The number of cases has levelled off after a rapid increase, according to the African Union’s health agency, Africa CDC, though it still considers the outbreak “not under control”.
目前正在针对本迪布焦型埃博拉病毒测试多种治疗方法和疫苗，目前尚无获批的疫苗或治疗方法。
Several treatments and vaccines are being trialled against the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.
这是刚果金第17次埃博拉疫情，疫情已迅速蔓延。专家表示，卫生基础设施薄弱、当地偏远，以及刚果金与南苏丹、乌干达和卢旺达边境地区持续发生的冲突，妨碍了快速、有效地应对疫情。
The current outbreak, which is the DRC’s 17th, has spread rapidly Experts say that weak health infrastructure, the region’s remoteness and ongoing conflict near the DRC’s borders with South Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda have damaged efforts to respond to cases quickly and effectively.
这些问题也阻碍了政府抗击疫情的努力，加剧了公众对政府所建议预防措施的不信任和愤怒。
Those issues have also hindered the government’s efforts to fight the outbreak, increasing public mistrust and anger towards its suggested prevention measures.
据刚果卫生当局介绍，UDPS党布滕博地区联邦执行委员会代理主席玛丽-塞莱斯坦·卡龙德瓦在一次广播节目中讨论埃博拉预防措施后，遭到当地居民袭击。
Marie-Celestin Karondwa, acting president of the UDPS party’s federal executive committee in Butembo, was attacked by local residents after appearing on a radio show where he discussed Ebola prevention measures, according to the Congolese health authorities.
在最新病例报告中，当局指出，伊图里省各卫生中心收治病例的能力“较低”，并称，位于东北部的乔波省已发现病例，但该省用于应对本迪布焦型毒株的实验性疫苗库存“完全短缺”。
In their latest case report, authorities highlighted a “low capacity” to treat cases at health centres in Ituri province and described a “complete shortage” of stocks of an experimental vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain in the northeastern province of Tshopo, where cases have been recorded.
世界卫生组织表示，这次疫情“远未结束”，其规模有望超过2014年至2016年的西非埃博拉疫情。那场疫情造成超过1.1万人死亡，其中绝大多数位于几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂。
The World Health Organization has said the outbreak is“far from over” and on track to surpass the regional 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak. It killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
美国上周宣布，将追加提供2.67亿美元，用于抗击埃博拉疫情。美国希望其他国家作出资金承诺，以达到20亿美元的抗疫资金目标。该疾病主要在刚果民主共和国流行。
The United States announced last week that it was releasing a further $267 million to help fight Ebola. It is hoping for pledges from other countries to meet a target of $2 billion to fight the disease, mainly found in the DRC.