抗议者杀害刚果（金）长期治疗埃博拉患者的护士金沙萨，10月26日——卫生官员周一表示，在刚果（金）东部，一群年轻人杀害了一名长期治疗埃博拉患者的护士，其他医护人员则在警方守卫下避难。这是受错误信息煽动的一系列袭击事件中的最新一起。
Protesters kill longtime nurse treating Ebola patients in Congo KINSHASA, Oct 26 - Youths killed a longtime nurse treating Ebola patients in eastern Congo and other health workers were sheltering under police guard, health officials said on Monday, in the latest in a series of attacks that have been fuelled by misinformation.
这名护士在乔波省巴法森德镇的综合医院工作，他在那里努力帮助居民了解埃博拉并保护自己免受感染。他于周五遭到袭击并被杀害。
The nurse worked at the general hospital in the town of Bafwasende in Tshopo province, where he sought to help residents understand and protect themselves from Ebola. He was attacked and killed on Friday.
“我们对民众如此敌视这名护士感到震惊。很难相信他会被人误认为是外来者，”一名当地卫生官员对路透社说。
"We are shocked at how the population turned against this nurse. It is impossible to believe that he was mistaken for a stranger," a local health official told Reuters.
这名官员说，一名同事在袭击中幸存，正在医院康复。他说，其他医护人员在警方守卫下在综合医院避难，因害怕而不敢回家，军方也曾短暂部署到该地区。
A colleague survived the attack and was recovering in hospital, the official said. Other health workers were sheltering at the general hospital under police guard, too afraid to go home, while the army also briefly deployed to the area, he said.
“没有一名护士在自己家中过夜，因为他们担心自身安全，”这名官员补充说。
"None of the nurses have slept at their homes because they fear for their security," the official added.
乔波省是刚果（金）八个正在应对本迪布焦型埃博拉病毒快速蔓延疫情的省份之一。刚果（金）公共卫生研究所周五报告称，自5月宣布疫情暴发以来，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以医院、车辆和参与埃博拉应对工作的人员为目标，凸显了在民众中建立信任所面临的挑战。
Tshopo is among eight provinces in Congo that are battling a fast-spreading outbreak of the Bundibugyo species of the Ebola virus. 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.
这名当地卫生官员说，该地区的年轻人此前还袭击过另一名同事，烧毁了他的房子，但没有提供该事件发生的日期。
The local health official said that youths in the area had previously attacked another colleague, setting his house on fire, without providing a date for that incident.
路透社此前曾报道，早在埃博拉开始传播之前，卫生错误信息的迅速扩散就对刚果（金）东部的医护人员构成了威胁，乔波省有多名医护人员在被指控传播一种导致男性生殖器萎缩的虚构疾病后遭到杀害。
Reuters has previously reported how the rapid spread of health misinformation posed a threat to health 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.
联合国埃博拉高级协调员朱利安·哈内斯周日在X平台上发帖说：“昨天一名护士在巴夫瓦森德被杀，这是埃博拉应对工作的损失，更是患者的更大损失。”
"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 on Sunday.