伦敦10月26日电 —— 非洲疾病预防控制中心主任让·卡塞亚表示，一个顶尖的埃博拉科学家团队将前往尼日利亚，协助调查该国十多年来的首位患者是如何感染的。
LONDON, Oct 26 - A team of leading Ebola scientists will travel to Nigeria to help investigate how the country’s first patient in more than a decade got infected, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya said.
卡塞亚在伦敦接受路透社采访时表示，他们的任务将包括试图查明这名女性患者是如何感染本迪布焦（Bundibugyo）型埃博拉病毒的；该患者是一名乌干达裔的瑞士外交官妻子，常驻阿布贾。她的旅行证件显示，她没有去过刚果民主共和国的疫情中心。
Their task will involve trying to work out how the female patient, the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, caught the Bundibugyo species of Ebola. Her travel documents show she had not visited the outbreak epicentre in Democratic Republic of Congo, Kaseya said in an interview with Reuters in London.
弄清楚她是如何生病的至关重要，这不仅是为了确保这场已经是有记录以来第二大埃博拉疫情的致命本迪布焦疫情没有在尚未发现的地点悄然蔓延，也是为了帮助追踪和隔离所有密切接触者。“许多未知数”卡塞亚说：“我们有太多的未知数。我正带一组科学家前往阿布贾，因为……我们需要以科学为导向。”科学家将调查的假设之一是尼日利亚患者与肯尼亚首例病例之间可能存在的联系，本月早些时候报道称，肯尼亚首例病例是一名从刚果出发的男子。周五公布的基因测序显示，感染这两名患者的病毒密切相关。
Finding out how she became ill matters to ensure that the deadly Bundibugyo outbreak, already the second-largest Ebola epidemic on record, is not spreading silently in as-yet undiscovered locations, and to help trace and isolate all contacts. ‘MANY UNKNOWNS’“We have so many unknowns,” said Kaseya. “I’m bringing a group of scientists in Abuja because… we need to be led by science.”One of the theories the scientists will investigate is a potential link between the patient in Nigeria and the first case in Kenya, reported earlier this month in a man who had travelled from Congo. On Friday, genomic sequencing showed that the viruses that infected the two patients were closely related.
卡塞亚说，尼日利亚患者曾在乌干达度假，并于10月3日经恩德培机场出行。肯尼亚患者现已死亡，当时很可能也在该机场，因为他们的航班时间仅相差约40分钟左右，尽管他们并非从同一个登机口出发，且目前尚不清楚他们是否有过任何接触。
The patient in Nigeria had been on holiday in Uganda and travelled through Entebbe Airport on October 3. The patient in Kenya, who has since died, was likely in the airport at the same time, as their flights were around 40 minutes apart, although they did not depart from the same gate and it is not clear whether they had any contact, Kaseya said.
卡塞亚表示，虽然基因测序显示病毒相似，但这并不意味着其中一名患者直接感染了另一名患者；阿布贾患者的病情正在好转，她曾表示不记得见过肯尼亚患者。
Kaseya said while genomic sequencing had shown that the viruses were similar, it did not mean that one of the patients had directly infected the other and the patient in Abuja, whose condition is improving, has said she does not remember meeting the Kenya patient.
不过，他表示，他们没有排除任何可能性，包括可能通过另一个人发生间接接触等。根据世界卫生组织的数据，埃博拉病毒是通过密切接触感染者的有症状体液传播的。调查仍在进行卡塞亚表示，在经历了上周他所说的紧张局势之后，所有相关国家现在都愿意合作开展调查。当时，乌干达政府坚称阿布贾患者去过刚果，而尼日利亚当局则暗示她没有去过，而是在自8月以来一直没有埃博拉疫情的乌干达感染的。
However, he said they were not excluding any options, including that there may have been indirect contact through another person, for example. Ebola spreads through close contact with the infected bodily fluids of a person with symptoms, according to the World Health Organization. INVESTIGATION ONGOING Kaseya said all countries involved were now willing to collaborate in the investigation, after what he described as tension last week when Uganda’s government insisted the patient in Abuja had been to Congo, while Nigerian authorities suggested she had not and was infected in Uganda, which has been Ebola-free since August.
卡塞亚称，这个团队将由埃博拉病毒的共同发现者、刚果专家让-雅克·穆延贝领导，并将研究更多的测序数据，以查明肯尼亚患者是在哪里被感染的。
Kaseya said the team, which will be led by the co-discoverer of Ebola, Congolese expert Jean-Jacques Muyembe, would also look at more sequencing data to work out where the Kenyan patient was infected.
刚果的埃博拉本迪布焦疫情目前已在刚果造成近1万起病例和4600多起死亡病例，并蔓延至非洲另外三个国家 —— 肯尼亚、尼日利亚和乌干达。该疾病可引起发热、呕吐、腹泻，在严重情况下还会导致内出血和外出血。目前尚无针对埃博拉本迪布焦的获批疫苗或疗法。
The Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo has now caused almost 10,000 cases and more than 4,600 deaths in Congo, and spread to three other countries in Africa – Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. The disease can cause fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and, in severe cases, internal and external bleeding. There is currently no approved vaccine or treatment for Ebola Bundibugyo.