双语新闻：尼日利亚现第二起埃博拉聚集性病例

2014-09-09 11:58:50来源：可可英语

　　The World Health Organization expressed worry onWednesday about a second cluster of Ebola viruspatients in Nigeria — in the center of its oil industry— because one of the three confirmed victims was adoctor who had treated patients and socialized afterhe became contagious.

　　世界卫生组织(World Health Organization)周三对尼日利亚出现第二起感染埃博拉病毒的聚集性病例表示担忧。这次的病例出现在该国石油产业的中心城市，而担忧的原因在于，三名确诊的病患之一是名医生，而他在具有传染性之后曾治疗病人并参加社交活动。

　　The doctor, in the southern city of Port Harcourt, died on Aug. 22, and his infection wasconfirmed five days later. On its website, the W.H.O. said that more than 200 people might beat risk.

　　这名医生身处南部城市哈科特港，于8月22日死亡，五天后被确诊是感染了埃博拉病毒。世卫组织在其网站上宣布，可能有200多人面临感染风险。

　　The W.H.O. said this second cluster had indirectly resulted from a quarantine lapse in thefirst cluster of Ebola cases that hit Lagos, the capital, in July, and was potentially far moreserious. Tracing the spread of the disease in Port Harcourt, the statement said, revealed“multiple high-risk opportunities for transmission of the virus to others.”

　　世卫组织表示，间接导致这第二起聚集性病例的是尼日利亚首都拉各斯7月份出现第一起埃博拉聚集性病例时发生的一次隔离失误，而这一次的问题有可能要严重得多。声明表示，追踪哈科特港的疾病传播状况时发现，存在“多次将病毒传染给他人的高风险机会”。

　　Ebola has primarily afflicted three countries in West Africa — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone —where hundreds of people have died in recent weeks in what W.H.O. officials have called theworst outbreak of the disease ever recorded. While the toll in Nigeria has been far more limited,officials are particularly worried about it because it is Africa’s most populous country.

　　埃博拉病毒目前主要在非洲西部的几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂肆虐，导致这三个国家最近数周里有成百上千人死亡。世卫组织官员称之为有历史记录以来最为严重的埃博拉疫情。尽管尼日利亚的死亡人数要少得多，但它让官员们颇为担忧，因为这里是非洲人口最稠密的国家。

　　The W.H.O. has been criticized by some other medical advocates for what they call its initialfailure to mobilize adequately against Ebola when the outbreak surfaced in West Africa monthsago.

　　世卫组织遭到了其他一些医疗倡导机构的批评。后者认为，几个月前非洲西部冒出埃博拉疫情爆发的苗头时，世卫组织最初未能恰当地进行动员，加以应对。

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