
2026年11月2日,刚果(金)伊图里省布尼亚,身穿个人防护装备的刚果工人在布尼亚综合转诊医院埃博拉治疗中心外行走,此前该地出现邦迪布焦毒株埃博拉疫情反弹。
Congolese workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walk outside the Ebola Treatment Center at the Bunia General Referral Hospital following a resurgence of Ebola involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, the Democratic Republic of Congo, November 2, 2026.
世界卫生组织周三(11月4日)表示,今年迄今刚果(金)霍乱已致约1800人死亡,该国同时还在应对最致命的埃博拉疫情。
Cholera has killed around 1,800 people so far this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is also battling its deadliest Ebola outbreak the World Health Organization said Wednesday, November 4.
世卫组织总干事谭德塞称,已记录约6万例这种腹泻病病例,形容这是这个中非大国“几十年来最严重的霍乱疫情”。
Some 60,000 cases of the diarrhoeal disease have been recorded in what the UN health agency's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described as the vast central African country's "worst cholera outbreak in decades".
谭德塞说,大多数感染病例在刚果(金)东部的北基伍和南基伍两省被发现,这两省长期受多个武装团体蹂躏,并部分处于卢旺达支持的“M23运动”武装控制之下。他补充道:“但现在担忧的是,刚果河流域也出现了病例,这意味着疫情可能蔓延至首都金沙萨。”
Most of the infections had been detected in the DRC's eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, both prey to a litany of armed groups and partly under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 militia, Tedros said. "But the concern is now there are also cases following the Congo river basin, which means that could stretch up to Kinshasa," the capital, he added.
正如正在持续的埃博拉疫情一样,霍乱在长期饱受冲突困扰、难以到达的偏远地区蔓延,正阻碍应对工作。世卫组织警告,这些地区现在面临在肆虐的埃博拉疫情之上,再爆发大规模霍乱疫情的前景。
As with the ongoing Ebola epidemic, cholera's spread in hard-to-access and remote regions long plagued by conflict is hampering the response. Those areas now face the prospect of a rampant cholera outbreak on top of the raging Ebola epidemic, the WHO warned.
该机构还担心,正在进行的雨季将助长这种水源性疾病的传播,包括在坐落于刚果河畔的高密度大都市金沙萨。病死率约为3%,这对霍乱而言属于较高水平。谭德塞坚称,在冲突频发的东部地区特别是分发埃博拉疫苗的行动将“非常、非常重要”。《世界报》法新社电
The agency also feared that the ongoing rainy season would help the waterborne disease's spread, including in Kinshasa, a densely populated metropolis on the Congo river. The mortality rate is around 3%, which is high for cholera. Tedros insisted that a campaign to distribute Ebola vaccines especially in the conflict-hit east, would be "very, very important". Le Monde with AFP