在刚果埃博拉疫情最严重的社区，常规医疗服务遭到严重破坏，对感染的恐惧和医院面临的压力阻碍了儿童免疫接种，并使患者不敢寻求产科和其他基本医疗服务。
Routine healthcare has been severely disrupted in communities hit hardest by Ebola in Congo, where fear of infection and pressure on hospitals are stymieing pediatric immunizations and discouraging patients from seeking maternity and other basic care.
根据独立人道主义研究机构ACAPS发布的一项分析，在疫情震中伊图里省的四个主要埃博拉热点地区，七项基本卫生服务的使用量在4月至6月间下降了42%。同期儿童疫苗接种率下降了一半以上。
Use of seven essential health services fell 42% between April and June in four major Ebola hotspots in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, according to an analysis published by ACAPS, an independent humanitarian research group. Childhood vaccination in the same areas fell by more than half.
这种中断凸显了疫情不断扩大的代价：目前的疫情规模已超过刚果历史上最大埃博拉疫情的两倍多，波及的卫生区数量也超过前者的两倍多。
The disruption points to a widening toll from an epidemic that has already grown to more than twice the size of Congo’s previous biggest Ebola outbreak — and spread through more than twice as many health zones.
截至9月26日，这个中非国家已在七个省的63个卫生区报告了8067例确诊病例。
The Central African nation reported 8,067 confirmed cases across 63 health zones in seven provinces through Sept. 26.