持刀愤怒青年袭击两名社区卫生工作者，致一死一伤，据官员和路透社周一看到的一份备忘录称，这是由错误信息引发的一系列袭击中的最新一起。遇害工作者是一名经验丰富的护士，曾在乔波省巴夫瓦森德镇的综合医院工作，最近被指派帮助在当地社区提高对这种致命病毒的认识，他是当地知名人物，一位地方官员和备忘录均表示。
Angry youths armed with machetes attacked two community health workers raising awareness about the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, killing one and wounding the other, according to officials and a memo seen by Reuters on Monday, in the latest in a series of attacks fueled by misinformation. The worker who was killed was an experienced nurse who had worked at the general hospital in the town of Bafwasende in Tshopo province, and was recently tasked with helping to raise awareness about the deadly virus in the local community, where he was a well-known figure, a local official, and the memo said."
“我们对民众竟然反戈相向攻击这名护士感到震惊。不可能相信他会被误认为是陌生人，”一位地方卫生官员告诉路透社。
We are shocked at how the population turned against this nurse.
袭击发生在周五下午，当时这名护士和一名同事——一名同样从事社区外联工作的教师——停下来查看一块地皮。隔壁正在盖房的一群人开始指责他们通过污染水源传播疾病。
It is impossible to believe that he was mistaken for a stranger," a local health official told Reuters. The attack took place on Friday afternoon, when the nurse and a colleague, a teacher also working on community outreach, stopped to check on a lot of land.
“就是这些人通过人们的厕所和河流传播埃博拉病毒！”据一名卫生官员分享的备忘录称，他们高喊。
A group of people building a home next door began to accuse them of spreading the disease by contaminating water." Here are the people that are spreading the Ebola virus through people's toilets and rivers!" they shouted, according to the memo shared by a health official.
愤怒的群众随后有手持砍刀和棍棒的青年加入，袭击了这两人。备忘录称，在医院急救人员赶到之前，护士当场死亡，教师幸存。错误信息助长袭击乔波省是刚果八个正在应对邦迪布焦种埃博拉病毒快速蔓延疫情的省份之一。
The angry group was joined by youths wielding machetes and batons, who attacked the pair. The nurse died on the spot before the hospital's emergency services could reach them, the memo said, while the teacher survived. Misinformation fueling attackTshopo is among eight provinces in Congo that are battling a fast-spreading outbreak of the Bundibugyo species of the Ebola virus.
刚果公共卫生研究所周五报告称，自5月宣布疫情爆发以来，累计确诊病例达9964例，病死率约为48.6%。针对医护人员的袭击瞄准了参与埃博拉应对工作的医院、车辆和工作人员，凸显了在民众中建立信任面临的挑战。
Congo's public health institute on Friday reported 9,964 total confirmed cases with around a 48.6% fatality rate since the outbreak was declared in May. Attacks on health workers have targeted hospitals, vehicles and staff involved in the Ebola response, underscoring the challenge of building trust among the population.
当地官员表示，在最新袭击发生地巴夫瓦森德，医护人员正在综合医院内、在警察护卫下避难，因恐惧而不敢回家，军队也曾短暂部署至该地区。“没有一名护士在家里睡觉，因为他们担心自身安全，”该官员补充道。
The local official said health workers in Bafwasende, where the latest attack took place, are sheltering at the general hospital under police guard, too afraid to go home, while the army also briefly deployed to the area." None of the nurses have slept at their homes because they fear for their security," the official added.
备忘录称，就在几天前，一群愤怒的暴徒袭击了另一名宣传埃博拉防疫知识的社区工作者，并烧毁了他的房子。
Only days earlier, an angry mob attacked another community worker raising awareness about Ebola and set his house on fire, the memo said.
路透社此前报道过，埃博拉开始传播前，健康错误信息在刚果东部的快速蔓延就已对医护人员构成威胁，多名医护人员在乔波省被杀，原因是他们被指控传播一种不存在的、会导致男性生殖器萎缩的疾病。
Reuters previously reported on how the rapid spread of health misinformation posed a threat to healthcare workers in eastern Congo even before Ebola began to spread, with multiple health workers killed in Tshopo after they were accused of spreading an imaginary disease that caused male genitals to atrophy."
联合国埃博拉应对高级协调员朱利安·哈内伊斯周日在X/Twitter发文称：“昨天巴夫瓦森德一名护士遇害，是埃博拉应对工作的损失，更是患者的巨大损失。”
The killing of a nurse yesterday in Bafwasende is a loss to the Ebola response and an even greater loss to patients," Julien Harneis, the senior United Nations Ebola coordinator, said in a post on X/Twitter on Sunday.