更新于：2026年8月11日 / 美国东部时间早上6:36 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
刚果布尼亚 —— 根据最新的政府数据，刚果此次有记录以来传播速度最快的埃博拉疫情已造成至少2000名确诊病例患者死亡。由于叛军冲突、道路状况恶劣以及因薪酬问题引发的停工，卫生当局难以快速向偏远地区提供援助。
截至周二凌晨公布的数据显示，本次疫情累计确诊病例达4381例，其中死亡2011例。
这一严峻的死亡数据距离5月15日疫情被宣布暴发仅过去近三个月。本次疫情累计死亡病例达到1000例耗时约九周，而新增的1000例死亡仅用了大约三周时间，这表明这场卫生危机正以远超应急响应团队控制能力的速度蔓延。
2026年8月10日，刚果布尼亚的埃博拉治疗中心内，身着防护装备的医护人员挥手致意。美联社照片/迪厄多内·迪罗勒
本次疫情已经成为历史上第二大埃博拉暴发疫情，仅次于2014-2016年的西非疫情——后者累计确诊超过2.8万例，死亡逾1.1万例。
世界卫生组织已将此次波及邻国乌干达的疫情列为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件。
救援人员表示，疫情的扩散速度已经超过了在五个受影响省份铺开的应急响应工作。许多医护人员发起罢工，抗议自疫情暴发以来未收到工作报酬。而且大多数新增病例都出现在已被监测的接触者追踪范围之外。
本次埃博拉疫情与以往多数疫情不同，此次致病的是罕见的本迪布焦型埃博拉病毒，目前尚无获批的疫苗或治疗方法。针对该病毒的临床试验已在疫情震馅伊图里省展开。
世界卫生组织周一表示，本次疫情很可能于2月暴发，远早于当局在刚果最偏远、最脆弱的地区之一发现疫情。世卫组织称，早期的一些病例被错误地归因于疟疾和伤寒，且早期检测仅针对更常见的埃博拉病毒亚型。
世卫组织非洲区域主任穆罕默德·亚库布·贾纳比博士在新闻发布会上表示，官员们正在“追赶病毒，但病毒已经跑在了我们前面”。
1976年，首例埃博拉病毒在如今刚果境内的埃博拉河附近被发现。本次疫情是这个中非国家遭遇的第17次埃博拉疫情，也是规模最大的一次。
Congo Ebola death toll tops 2,000 as outbreak becomes fastest spreading on record
Updated on: August 11, 2026 / 6:36 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Bunia, Congo — At least 2,000 people have died among the confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak that is the fastest-spreading on record, according to the latest government data, as health authorities struggle to get help quickly to remote localities due to rebel conflict, bad roads and work stoppages over payment issues.
Data published overnight into Tuesday showed the outbreak has recorded a total of 4,381 confirmed cases, including 2,011 deaths.
The grim toll comes nearly three months since the outbreak was declared on May 15. While it took about nine weeks for the outbreak to record 1,000 deaths, it’s taken just around three weeks to record the additional 1,000 deaths, showing how fast the health crisis is moving beyond the control of responders.
Health workers in protective gear wave inside an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, Congo, on Aug. 10, 2026. AP Photo / Dieudonne Dirole
It’s already the second-largest outbreak in history, only behind the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak that recorded more than 28,000 cases including over 11,000 deaths.
The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak, which has also led to cases in neighboring Uganda, a public health emergency of international concern.
Aid workers say the outbreak continues to outpace the response that’s been expanding across the five provinces affected. Many health workers have gone on strike to protest not being paid for their work since the outbreak was declared. And most new cases are recorded outside of contacts that are being monitored.
The Ebola outbreak is unlike most previous ones because the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines or treatments. Clinical trials for those have begun in Ituri, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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The WHO said on Monday that the outbreak likely started in February, long before authorities detected it in one of Congo’s most remote and vulnerable areas. WHO said some cases early on were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid, and that early testing was conducted for the more common type of Ebola.
The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, told a news conference that officials are “chasing the virus, the virus is ahead of us.”
The first Ebola virus to be identified was in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now Congo. The current outbreak is the 17th — and largest — the Central African nation has faced.
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