2026年6月17日 美国东部时间下午6:52 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：拉米·因诺森西奥
拉米·因诺森西奥是驻扎在伦敦的哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻外记者，负责报道欧洲和中东地区。他于2019年加入该媒体，担任哥伦比亚广播公司新闻亚洲区通讯员，总部位于北京，负责整个亚太地区的报道，拥有在亚洲和美国之间工作、旅行的20年经验。
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刚果（金）边境——即便在刚果民主共和国这场致命且持续扩散的埃博拉疫情的中心地带，救援人员让-马里·利佩常常难以让民众相信这种病毒是真实存在的。
帕西·恩扎利是因本国长期酝酿的冲突而流离失所的数万人之一，她在参加完利佩的信息宣讲会后表示，她现在明白了蝙蝠和黑猩猩可能携带埃博拉病毒，即便它们已经死亡，也不要触碰。
但仍有许多刚果人认为这种致命病毒并非真实存在——他们将其归咎于神秘诅咒或是西方阴谋——这持续给拼命阻止病毒传播的医疗工作者的工作制造阻碍。
自5月15日本次疫情被宣布暴发以来，累计确诊病例数持续飙升，目前已突破800例。非洲疾病预防控制中心负责人就此发出了严峻警告。
“如果我们不能尽快遏制这场疫情，情况将比西非那次疫情还要糟糕，”非洲疾控中心主任让·卡塞亚说道。
2014年至2016年的西非埃博拉疫情导致超过1.1万人死亡、2.3万余人感染，这是自1976年该病毒被发现以来有记录以来最严重的一次暴发。
恩扎利避难所在刚果-乌干达边境附近的难民营挤满了成千上万逃离冲突的民众，这些营地成为包括埃博拉在内的传染病传播的潜在热点区域。
2026年5月28日，刚果民主共和国东部布尼亚的基贡泽国内流离失所者营地景象。格洛迪·穆尔哈巴齐 / 法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄
乌干达的卫生官员也面临着同样的担忧。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者此前探访了一处针对近期从刚果逃来的难民的隔离点。
詹姆斯·彼得是最近也是唯一一名新入境者，目前已单独隔离一周。这里没有电视、没有收音机，只有一张床和窗外的微风。我们通过带刺的铁丝网和他交谈。根据隔离措施，他将被封锁在房屋内总共21天。
他在安全距离外向我们讲述，他在反政府武装突袭他的家乡戈马后逃离了那里。他说，他支付了4万乌干达先令，约合10美元，花了6个小时连夜渡过阿尔伯特湖，越过边境进入乌干达。
他为寻求更安全生活而不顾一切的心情不难理解，但他如此轻易地跨越国际边境这一点，凸显出医疗专业人员在竭力遏制这场致命疫情时面临的挑战。
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People fleeing conflict in Congo complicate efforts to stop Ebola outbreak
June 17, 2026 6:52 PM EDT / CBS News
By Ramy Inocencio
Ramy Inocencio is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network in 2019 as CBS News’ Asia correspondent, based in Beijing and reporting across the Asia-Pacific, bringing two decades of experience working and traveling between Asia and the United States.
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DRC-Congo border —_ Even at the epicenter of the deadly, growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, aid worker Jean Marie Lipe often finds it hard to convince people the virus is real.
Grandmother Passy Nzali, among tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes by the long simmering conflict in her country, said after attending an information session with Lipe that she now understands bats and chimpanzees can carry Ebola — and to avoid touching them even when they’re dead.
But many Congolese still believe the deadly virus is something other than real — ranging from a mystical curse to a Western conspiracy — and that continues to complicate the jobs of health workers trying desperately to stop its spread.
The total number of confirmed cases continues to surge, now over the 800 mark since this outbreak was declared on May 15, drawing a dire warning from the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“If we don’t stop this outbreak very soon, it will be even worse than what we had in West Africa,”said Africa CDC Director Jean Kaseya.
More than 11,000 people died and more than 23,000 were infected in West Africa’s Ebola crisis from 2014 to 2016 — the worst outbreak in recorded history since the virus was discovered 50 years ago, in 1976.
Camps like the one where Nzali has found refuge near the Congo-Uganda border are packed with thousands of people fleeing conflict — making the sites potential hotspots for the spread of infectious diseases, including Ebola.
A view of the Kigonze camp for internally displaced persons in Bunia, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 28, 2026. Glody MURHABAZI / AFP via Getty Images
The same anxieties play on the minds of health officials in Uganda, where CBS News visited a quarantine site for refugees who recently fled from the Congo.
James Peter was the most recent and only new arrival, now a week into solo quarantine. No TV, no radio, just a bed and the breeze. We spoke to him through barbed wire. He was set to be locked down in a house under quarantine measures for a total of 21 days.
He spoke to us from a safe distance, saying he fled his hometown of Goma after anti-government forces raided the city. He said he paid 40,000 Ugandan shillings, or about $10, to make a six-hour overnight crossing of Lake Albert, across the border into Uganda.
His desperation for a safer life is easy to understand, but the relative ease with which he crossed the international border to do so highlights the challenges facing the health professionals racing to stem a deadly outbreak.
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