刚果（金）的埃博拉疫情已导致超过4000人死亡。由于医护人员薪资拖欠、暴力事件频发以及安全局势动荡，疫情控制工作遭遇重重阻碍。治疗能力的下降以及民众对防疫工作的极度不信任，使得这场创纪录规模的疫情愈发难以控制。
Congo's Ebola outbreak has crossed 4,000 deaths as unpaid workers, attacks and insecurity disrupt containment. The loss of treatment capacity and deep mistrust are making a record crisis even harder to control.
官方数据显示，刚果（金）的埃博拉疫情致死人数已突破4000大关。目前，控制病毒传播的努力仍面临诸多重大挫折。周四公布的卫生部统计数字显示，在近8300例确诊病例中，已有4018人死亡。此次疫情已成为有记录以来传播速度最快的埃博拉疫情。
Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has crossed 4,000 deaths, authorities said, as efforts to contain the virus continue to face major setbacks. Health Ministry figures released on Thursday showed 4,018 deaths out of nearly 8,300 confirmed cases in what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.
此次疫情于5月15日被确认，由较为罕见的邦迪布焦病毒引发，目前尚无任何有效的治疗方法或疫苗。薪资拖欠、安全形势恶劣、医疗设施屡遭袭击以及部分社区的抵制，均严重拖慢了防疫工作的进展。
The outbreak, announced on May 15 and caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, has no known treatment or vaccine. Containment efforts are being slowed by unpaid health workers, insecurity, attacks on facilities, and resistance from some communities.
在疫情重灾区布尼亚，一些医护人员聚集起来要求发放拖欠的工资，但很快便被当局驱散。抗议者中还包括负责排查接触过感染者的监测人员。他们举着写有“没钱就别要数据！”以及“数月未发工资”的标语牌。自疫情爆发以来，一线医护人员已多次举行罢工，进一步扰乱了防疫工作的正常开展。
In Bunia, in the heart of the outbreak, some health workers gathered to demand payment of overdue wages but were quickly dispersed by officials. The protesters included surveillance team members who identify people exposed to infected patients. They waved placards that read, "No money, no data!" and "No payment for months." Front-line workers have gone on strike several times since the outbreak began, further disrupting the response.
一位联合国高级官员称，本周早些时候，在布尼亚郊外的基贡泽地区，士兵们在搜寻武器时纵火焚烧了一处设有埃博拉患者转运中心的难民营。这场火灾导致营内1.9万名民众被迫逃离家园。
A senior UN official said an Ebola-hit camp housing a transit centre for infected patients was burned by soldiers earlier this week while they were looking for weapons in Kigonze, on the outskirts of Bunia. The fire forced 19,000 people in the camp to flee.
联合国表示：“在刚果民主共和国（DRC）阻止埃博拉病毒传播这一艰巨任务，因伊图里省的一个关键转运中心被烧毁而变得更加困难。”联合国负责埃博拉疫情协调的高级官员朱利安·哈奈斯（Julien Harneis）指出，建立埃博拉病毒转运和治疗中心面临诸多挑战，主要是因为资金和人力资源都严重不足。“每当一个转运中心被毁，就意味着我们的应对能力下降、投资遭受损失，我们必须从头开始；更重要的是，这意味着人们无法获得他们真正需要的医疗救治。”
"The enormous challenge of halting the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just became even harder after a key transit centre for patients requiring treatment burned down in Ituri province," the United Nations said. Julien Harneis, the UN's senior Ebola coordinator, said creating Ebola transit and treatment centres has been difficult because money and staff are both in short supply. "When we lose a centre, that means we lose capacity, we lose investment, and we have to start again. And above all, it means that people do not get access to the care that they really need," Harneis said.
此外，无国界医生组织（Medecins Sans Frontières, MSF）的一名工作人员在刚果工作时感染了埃博拉病毒。该工作人员于周四晚通过专机抵达荷兰，并被送往莱顿大学医疗中心的高级别隔离病房接受治疗。无国界医生组织称：“这场危机给刚果民主共和国带来了前所未有的人员伤亡，当地社区正面临该国有记录以来最严重的埃博拉疫情。”已有超过50名卫生工作者因感染该病毒而死亡。
Separately, an aid worker with Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, was infected with Ebola while working in Congo, the group said. The worker arrived late on Thursday night in the Netherlands on a special medical flight and was transferred to a high-level isolation unit at Leiden University Medical Centre. "The human cost of this crisis is unprecedented in the DRC, with communities facing the largest Ebola disease outbreak ever recorded in the country," MSF said. More than 50 health workers have died after contracting the virus.
世界卫生组织最近警告称，埃博拉病毒正在迅速扩散到新的地区，进一步加剧了医疗资源的紧张状况。非洲疾病控制与预防中心（Africa CDC）表示，新确诊病例的数量有所下降，但这可能是因为某些疫区的安全局势不稳定，以及当地社区难以配合疫情防控工作。虽然某些地区的疫情传播速度有所减缓，但在其他地区却仍在加速，专家们认为这种局势非常棘手。
The World Health Organisation has recently warned about the virus spreading rapidly into new health zones, putting further pressure on limited resources. Africa CDC said the number of newly confirmed cases is falling, but that may be because of insecurity and difficulties in getting communities in some hot spots to cooperate. While the spread has slowed in some areas, it has accelerated in others, creating what experts see as a delicate situation.
最近几周，确诊病例的数量有所下降：7月中旬时每周约有850例确诊病例和470例死亡病例，到9月份时平均每周降至490例确诊病例和230例死亡病例。不过总体而言，截至9月份，确诊病例和死亡病例的数量仍分别增长了33%。
Confirmed cases have eased in recent weeks, from about 850 cases and 470 deaths a week in mid-July to an average of 490 cases and 230 deaths in September. Overall, however, the outbreak saw a similar rise of 33 per cent in both confirmed cases and deaths through September.
本周早些时候，围绕政府应对埃博拉疫情措施的争议再次加剧：一名刚果政治家因公开支持政府的防疫措施而遭到袭击并不幸身亡。玛丽-塞莱斯坦·卡龙德瓦（Marie-Celestin Karondwa）是执政党“民主与社会进步联盟”（Union for Democracy and Social Progress）的当地官员，他在周日于北基伍省东部的埃博拉疫情高发区布滕博（Butembo）的家中遭到袭击。袭击发生后，他的住所被纵火焚烧，他随后因伤在医院去世。
Tensions around the response were underlined earlier this week when a Congolese politician was attacked and beaten to death for defending government measures to deal with the outbreak. Marie-Celestin Karondwa, a local official of the ruling Union for Democracy and Social Progress party, was attacked on Sunday at his home in Butembo, an Ebola hot spot in eastern North Kivu province. His house was then set on fire, and he later died in hospital from his injuries.
公众对卫生工作者和政府当局的普遍不信任，继续阻碍着该国控制埃博拉疫情的各项工作。上个月，政府推出了以村庄为单位进行疫情防控的新策略，但这一举措遭到了当地居民的强烈抵制——许多居民认为埃博拉疫情根本就是一场骗局。目前，这场疫情已导致超过4000人死亡；与此同时，政府官员们还面临着暴力事件、资源匮乏以及民众普遍不信任的严峻挑战。
Widespread mistrust of health workers and the authorities has continued to hamper efforts to slow the country's 17th Ebola outbreak. Authorities last month launched a village-centred approach, but it has met resistance from residents who dismiss Ebola as a hoax. The outbreak has now killed more than 4,000 people, even as officials struggle with violence, weak resources and distrust on the ground.