周三，来自45个非洲国家的卫生官员会晤，协调全大陆范围内的应对行动，以应对一场已在刚果民主共和国造成近5000人死亡并蔓延至肯尼亚和尼日利亚的埃博拉疫情。会上提交的一份评估显示，在接受评估的31个国家中，仅有三个国家具备充分的应对准备。
Health officials from 45 African countries met Wednesday to coordinate a continent-wide response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people in DR Congo and spread to Kenya and Nigeria, as an assessment presented at the meeting showed only three of 31 countries evaluated were adequately prepared to respond.
“我们的成员国同意并承诺落实今天讨论的所有行动，包括加强防范工作，”非洲疾控中心（Africa CDC，该大陆的公共卫生机构）负责人让·卡塞亚（Jean Kaseya）表示。建议措施包括跨境协调行动、保持边境开放以及追踪应对资金，确保资金到达一线团队。
“Our member states, they agree and they commit to implement all actions that we discussed today, including strengthening the preparedness efforts,” said Jean Kaseya, head of Africa CDC, the continent’s public health agency. The recommendations include coordinating efforts across borders, keeping borders open and tracking response funding to ensure it reaches frontline teams.
卡塞亚上周在接受Semafor采访时表示，他担心疫情可能在全大陆蔓延。提交给部长们的数据显示，在刚果民主共和国，新增病例已连续11周未出现持续下降，确诊感染病例已超过1万例，而援助组织警告称，资金投入未能跟上疫情规模。
Kaseya told Semafor in an interview last week that he feared content-wide spread was possible. Data presented to ministers showed no sustained decline in new cases for 11 weeks in DR Congo, where more than 10,000 infections have been confirmed, while aid organizations warned that funding was failing to keep pace with the scale of the outbreak.
埃博拉应对工作获得了多国资助，美国是最大捐助国。美国国务院官员泰勒·塞克斯顿（Taylor Sexton）表示，华盛顿提供了超过12亿美元用于抗击疫情。他称，美国应对行动的首要任务是“保护本土以及国内外的美国人”。
The Ebola response has drawn funding from several countries, with the US as the largest donor. Taylor Sexton, a State Department official, said Washington was providing more than $1.2 billion to fight the outbreak. The first priority of the US response, he said, was “to protect the homeland and Americans at home and abroad.”