世卫组织：刚果（金）埃博拉疫情跨国扩散令应对更复杂，肯尼亚与尼日利亚追踪密切接触者
世界卫生组织（WHO）表示，始于刚果民主共和国的埃博拉疫情应对工作正变得更加复杂：本轮由本迪布焦型（Bundibugyo）埃博拉病毒引起的疫情，其病例已扩散到东非与西非国家。肯尼亚、刚果（金）与尼日利亚目前有现症或近期病例；乌干达今年早些时候也曾出现病例，其后已被宣布埃博拉疫情结束。
在肯尼亚，卫生部在本月确认首例病例后，又报告了 8 例新增病例。肯尼亚卫生部总干事 Patrick Amoth 表示，卫生部门已追踪首例患者的全部 135 名密切接触者。在尼日利亚，当局正在追踪 44 名密切接触者。非洲疾病预防控制中心应急准备与响应负责人 Wessam Mankoula 表示，尼日利亚与肯尼亚的首例患者都曾于 10 月 3 日从乌干达 Entebbe 离开，两人之间可能有过接触，相关情况正在调查中；他同时表示，目前没有经核实的信息表明尼日利亚患者到过刚果（金）。世卫组织驻尼日利亚代表 Pavel Ursu 表示，该组织收到的信息中，这名患者也没有乌干达以外的旅行记录。
世卫组织应急响应负责人 Patrick Otim 表示，这名患者的感染来源仍不明确，卫生当局正在拼凑其旅行史。随着病例在多国出现、感染链条尚不清晰，世卫组织与非洲疾控中心正与各国卫生部门协作，开展接触者追踪与疫情调查。埃博拉病毒病可通过直接接触患者体液传播，在西非 2014 至 2016 年的疫情中曾造成一万多人死亡。
WHO: Ebola Response Grows More Complex as Outbreak Spreads From DR Congo, Kenya and Nigeria Trace Contacts
The World Health Organization (WHO) said the response to an Ebola outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is becoming more complex as cases spread to countries in East and West Africa. The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. Kenya, DR Congo, and Nigeria have current or recent cases; Uganda also recorded cases earlier this year but has since been declared Ebola-free.
In Kenya, the Ministry of Health reported eight additional cases after confirming its first case this month. Patrick Amoth, the ministry's director-general, said officials had traced all 135 contacts of the first patient. In Nigeria, authorities are tracing 44 contacts. Wessam Mankoula, head of Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said the first patients in Nigeria and Kenya both left Entebbe, Uganda, on October 3, that a possible encounter between them was under investigation, and that there was no validated information that the Nigerian patient had visited DR Congo. Pavel Ursu, the WHO representative in Nigeria, said the information provided to the organization included no travel outside Uganda for that patient.
Patrick Otim, a WHO emergency response manager, said the source of the patient's infection remained unknown and that health authorities were piecing together her travel history. With cases appearing in several countries and the chains of infection still unclear, the WHO and Africa CDC are working with national health authorities on contact tracing and outbreak investigation. Ebola virus disease spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people.
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