确诊埃博拉病例在刚果民主共和国（DRC）疫情中已超过9000例，据卫生部数据显示，遏制传播的努力陷入停滞。
Confirmed Ebola cases have surpassed 9,000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, according to Health Ministry data, as efforts to stifle transmission falter.
卫生部周二报告确诊病例9066例，死亡4381例——死亡人数接近已知病例的一半。
The ministry reported 9,066 confirmed cases and 4,381 deaths on Tuesday – a death toll of nearly half the known cases.
这场由邦迪布焦株埃博拉病毒引发的疫情，已成为刚果（金）历史上规模最大、致死性最强的疫情。据世界卫生组织（WHO）称，从全球来看，其伤亡人数仅次于2014至2016年的西非疫情，那次疫情在几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂造成28600例确诊病例和11000多例死亡。
The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, has become the largest and deadliest in the DRC’s history. Globally, the toll is only second to the 2014 to 2016 West African epidemic, which saw 28,600 confirmed cases and more than 11,000 deaths across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
邦迪布焦株目前尚无获批疫苗或治疗方法，并引发了对跨境传播的担忧。
The Bundibugyo strain currently has no approved vaccines or treatments and has raised concerns over cross-border transmission.
上周，肯尼亚报告首例输入性病例，一名居住在刚果（金）的肯尼亚公民途经乌干达抵达内罗毕，随后死亡。
Last week, Kenya reported its first imported case in which a Kenyan national who lived in the DRC travelled through Uganda before reaching Nairobi, where he died.
乌干达今年早些时候也报告了20例病例和2例死亡，但该国于8月被宣布无埃博拉疫情。
Uganda also reported 20 cases and two deaths earlier in the year, but the country was declared Ebola-free in August.
卫生工作者和官员站在肯尼亚一家埃博拉隔离设施外 [资料图：Andrew Kasuku/美联社照片] 刚果（金）当前的疫情于5月中旬宣布，但一些专家怀疑最早可能始于2月。该病毒通过接触体液传播，已蔓延至北部和东部的七个省份。
Health workers and officials stand outside an Ebola isolation facility in Kenya [File: Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo] The current outbreak in the DRC was announced in mid-May, but some experts suspect it began as early as February. The virus, which is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, has spread to seven provinces in the north and east.
遏制病毒的努力面临障碍，刚果（金）的卫生工作者和其他应对人员遭遇当地社区的不信任，许多人认为该疾病是官员骗取钱财的借口。疫情还发生在M23反政府武装与政府军持续冲突之际，导致医疗资源难以运往偏远地区。
Efforts to contain the virus face obstacles as health workers and other responders in the DRC face mistrust in local communities, with many believing the disease is a ruse for officials to siphon off money The outbreak is also occurring amid an ongoing conflict between the M23 rebel group and government forces, making transport of healthcare resources to remote regions difficult.
据其政党称，刚果（金）东部一名地方政客在9月于广播中为政府的埃博拉应对辩护后被殴打致死。
local politician in eastern DRC was beaten to death in September after he defended the government’s Ebola response on the radio, according to his political party.
世界卫生组织（WHO）卫生紧急事务 programme 的执行主任奇克韦·伊赫克韦阿祖（Chikwe Ihekweazu）周二表示，未来几周内，将在刚果民主共和国（DRC）开展一项临床试验，以评估该疫苗对“邦迪布吉约”（Bundibugyo）病毒株的疗效。
A clinical trial to evaluate vaccine efficacy against the Bundibugyo strain is being prepared for the DRC in the coming weeks, WHO Health Emergencies Programme Executive Director Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu said on Tuesday.