“无援助”：埃博拉在刚果小镇蔓延时援助来得太晚。曼加拉发生的事情——居民几乎得不到外部支持——有助于解释为何这次疫情成为刚果民主共和国历史上最严重的疫情。
‘No Help’: Aid Arrived Too Late as Ebola Spread in a Congolese Town What happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A burial team carried the body of Josué Ddirokpa, 7, toward a cemetery in Mangala, Democratic Republic of Congo, in September.
9月，在刚果民主共和国曼加拉，一个安葬小组抬着7岁的Josué Ddirokpa的遗体前往公墓。图片来源...在刚果东部的一个山顶小镇，新的埃博拉中心开始建设。建成后，它将成为遏制病毒在该镇及周边村庄传播工作的核心。当地卫生工作者表示，这个中心来得太晚了。
Credit... Supported by On a hilltop town in eastern Congo, work has started on a new Ebola center. When completed, it will anchor an effort to contain the virus in the town and its surrounding villages. Local health workers here say the center is too late.
卫生工作者表示，如果在6月就开始在曼加拉镇持续抗击病毒，本可以挽救许多生命。
Many lives could have been saved, the health workers say, had a sustained effort to combat the virus started in the town of Mangala in June.
在疫情中心伊图里省的其他城镇，埃博拉治疗中心是在世界卫生组织5月宣布卫生紧急状态几周后才建立的。而在曼加拉，埃博拉应对行动直到8月才开始升级。
In other towns in Ituri Province, the epicenter of the outbreak, Ebola treatment centers were set up weeks after the World Health Organization declared a health emergency in May. In Mangala, the Ebola response only started ramping up in August.
这次疫情已是有记录以来第二大规模，已波及刚果民主共和国七个不同省份，可能早在1月就开始传播。根据政府最新数据，自5月以来，刚果已有超过3900人死于埃博拉。
This outbreak, already the second largest on record, has reached seven different provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo and likely began spreading as early as January. More than 3,900 people have died of Ebola in Congo since May, according to the latest data from the government.
有初步迹象表明应对工作正在取得进展。根据非洲疾控中心的最新数据，每周报告的新病例数似乎在8月达到顶峰。外部援助组织通常在非洲埃博拉疫情中发挥重要作用，补充往往薄弱的政府能力。
There is tentative evidence to suggest that the response is making progress. The number of new cases reported each week appears to have reached a peak in August, according to recent figures from Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outside aid organizations typically play a major role in African Ebola outbreaks, supplementing often weak government capacity.
但曼加拉的卫生工作者表示，如果援助能早些到达，本会减少生命损失。
But health workers in Mangala say fewer lives would have been lost had help arrived here sooner.
疫情激增超越近期疫情 目前的埃博拉激增已超过2018年疫情的总病例数。
Surge outpaces recent outbreaks The current Ebola surge has surpassed total cases in the 2018 outbreak.