尼日利亚卫生官员表示，检测结果已确认该国首例邦迪布焦株埃博拉病毒病例，该毒株正在刚果民主共和国（DRC）引发大规模疫情，标志着该疾病在当前疫情中首次传播至西非。
Nigerian health officials say test results have confirmed the country’s first case of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which is behind a major outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), marking the disease’s first spread to West Africa in the current outbreak.
尼日利亚疾病控制与预防中心（NCDC）表示，该病例涉及一名于10月3日从乌干达前往首都阿布贾的女性。
The case involves a woman who travelled from Uganda to the capital, Abuja, on October 3, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said.
在卫生官员得知她近期曾前往乌干达——当前疫情受影响国家之一——后，她于10月19日接受了埃博拉检测。官员于周二确认结果呈阳性。
She was tested for Ebola on October 19 after health officials learned she had recently travelled to Uganda, one of the countries affected by the current outbreak. Officials confirmed the positive result on Tuesday.
尼日利亚疾病控制与预防中心公共卫生实验室服务主任奥拉朱莫克·巴巴通德周三表示：“我们进行了三级检测，均为分子检测。毒株为邦迪布焦株。”
“We did three levels of tests, but all molecular. The strain was Bundibugyo,” Olajumoke Babatunde, director of the public health laboratory service at the NCDC, said on Wednesday.
世界卫生组织（WHO）也确认了该毒株，目前尚无针对该毒株的疫苗或特效治疗。“多器官衰竭”一名不愿透露姓名的官员告诉法新社，该女子是一名外交官，病情已恶化为“多器官衰竭”。
The World Health Organization (WHO) also confirmed the strain, for which there is neither a vaccine nor a specific treatment. ‘Multi-organ failure’An unnamed official told the AFP news agency that the woman is a diplomat whose condition has deteriorated into “multi-organ failure”.
尼日利亚医生、G7全球卫生投资委员会联合主席阿约阿德·阿拉基贾表示，从该女子发病到接受埃博拉检测耗时12天，可能使许多其他人暴露于感染风险中。
Ayoade Alakija, a Nigerian physician who co-chairs a G7 committee for investment in global health, said that it had taken 12 days since the woman fell sick for her to be tested for Ebola, potentially exposing many other people to the infection.
尼日利亚当局已追踪到44名密切接触者，其中大多数为医护人员。接触者包括患者的丈夫，一名居住在阿布贾的瑞士公民。
Nigerian authorities have identified 44 contacts, most of them healthcare workers. They include the patient’s husband, a Swiss national, who lives with her in Abuja.
官员还在追踪随她从乌干达前往尼日利亚的同机乘客，但认为她在飞行期间无症状。
Officials are also tracing passengers who travelled with her from Uganda to Nigeria but do not believe she was symptomatic during the flight.
卫生部长穆罕默德·阿里·帕特告诉公共广播机构NTA，该女子目前处于隔离状态并正在接受治疗。
Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate told public broadcaster NTA that the woman was in isolation and receiving treatment.
此前病例 2014年，尼日利亚首例病例在拉各斯被发现，引发病毒迅速蔓延的担忧，但疫情在三个月内得到控制，共造成20人感染、8人死亡。
Earlier cases In 2014, the first Nigerian case, detected in Lagos, raised fears the virus would spread rapidly, but it was brought under control within three months, resulting in 20 infections and eight deaths.
2013年末至2016年间，这场疫情在西非地区导致超过1.1万人死亡。
That epidemic killed more than 11,000 people across West Africa between late 2013 and 2016.
世界卫生组织（WHO）表示，尼日利亚是该疫情中第五个发现病毒的国家；过去一周，疫情进一步蔓延至整个非洲大陆——东非的肯尼亚自10月6日以来已报告9例确诊病例。
The WHO says Nigeria is the fifth country to detect the virus in the outbreak, which this past week widened across the continent, with Kenya in the east reporting nine cases since October 6.
非洲疾病控制与预防中心（Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention）主任让·卡塞亚（Jean Kaseya）周三在社交媒体上表示，这场疫情“已不再是某个国家的责任”，他计划下周召开非洲各国卫生部长会议，以加强跨境疫情应对措施并评估各国的医疗设施能力。
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Director-General Jean Kaseya said on X on Wednesday that the outbreak was “no longer one country’s fight”, and that he would hold a meeting of Africa’s health ministers next week to strengthen the cross-border response and review hospital capacity.
刚果民主共和国（DRC）是此次疫情的重灾区，也是疫情死亡人数最多的国家；自5月中旬以来，该国已有超过9000例埃博拉病例和4000人死亡。
The DRC is the epicentre of the outbreak, its deadliest on record. There have been more than 9,000 Ebola cases and more than 4,000 deaths there since mid-May.