2026年6月22日 美国东部时间7:43 / 美联社
刚果布尼亚 — 官员当地时间表示，刚果东部埃博拉疫情的确诊病例已达1003例，其中254人死亡，而追踪与患者有过接触的人员仍是一大挑战。
刚果卫生部周日称，自5月15日疫情暴发以来，这场集中在伊图里省的疫情中已有总计100人康复。该部门还表示，至少365名患者正在医院或隔离点接受治疗。
此次疫情由罕见的邦迪布戈病毒引起，目前尚无对应疫苗或治疗方法，其暴发首月的情况是该病毒有记录以来最严重的一次。
官员们承认，目前仍有大量未被发现的病例，疫情峰值尚未到来。
![2026年6月20日，在刚果民主共和国伊图里省蒙布瓦卢，医护人员将埃博拉患者转运至埃博拉治疗中心。新华社 盖蒂图片社供稿]
卫生部称，接触者追踪仍是当地政府面临的核心难题，目前仅实现了55%的追踪覆盖率。
“若要控制疫情暴发，尤其是埃博拉疫情，你必须明确首例病例。我们目前无法确定这场疫情何时开始，”非洲疾病预防控制中心主任让·卡塞亚博士上周对美联社说道。
当局表示，官员们尚未找到零号病人，截至上周，已有超过3.5万名与感染者有过接触的人员尚未完成追踪。
这在一定程度上是因为刚果东部同时正与叛军持续发动的暴力活动作斗争。在伊图里省，由“伊斯兰国”支持的盟军民主力量发动的袭击切断了许多村庄的通路，迫使民众逃离家园，其中包括躲在过度拥挤难民营中的人以及不断流离失所的民众。
![2026年6月19日拍摄的照片显示了刚果民主共和国伊图里省首府布尼亚附近一处流离失所者营地的景象。新华社 盖蒂图片社供稿]
疫情暴发一个多月以来，官员们认为病毒的传播速度仍超过应对工作的推进速度，且无人知晓疫情的真实规模。
在伊图里省首府布尼亚的基贡泽流离失所者营地，营地官员周五表示，上周有10人以异常情况死亡，引发了人们对这个拥有2万多名流离失所者的营地可能暴发疫情的担忧。
营地官员称，目前该营地尚未确诊埃博拉病例，但补充说死亡率前所未见，呼吁展开调查。
联合国难民署表示，刚果境内至少有200万被迫流离失所者，其中包括32万多名难民，生活在埃博拉感染风险地区。
该机构在周五的一份声明中称，对病毒“加速传播”以及“给该地区流离失所社区带来的日益增长的风险”深感担忧。
“如果疾病或疫情在这个（基贡泽）营地的数千名居民中传播，考虑到我们本已极为恶劣的生活条件，那将是一场真正的灾难，”伊图里省民间组织领导人沙里泰·班扎说道。
Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo top 1,000. More than a quarter have died, officials say.
June 22, 2026 7:43 AM EDT / AP
Bunia, Congo — Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said, as tracing those who had been in contact with patients remains a major challenge.
A total of 100 people have recovered in the outbreak concentrated in the Ituri province since it was declared on May 15, Congo’s Ministry of Health said Sunday. At least 365 patients are in hospitals or in isolation, it said.
The Ebola outbreak caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no vaccines or treatment, was the worst ever in its first month.
Officials admit there could be far more cases they still don’t know about and that the peak of the outbreak is still ahead.
Medical workers escort an Ebola patient to an Ebola treatment center in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on June 20, 2026. Xinhua via Getty Images
Contact tracing remains a key issue for local authorities, who have only achieved a 55% coverage rate, the ministry said.
“If you want to control an outbreak, especially Ebola outbreak, you must know the index case. We don’t have confidence on when this outbreak started,” the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director-General Dr. Jean Kaseya told The Associated Press last week.
Officials also are yet to identify the patient zero and trace more than 35,000 people who have come in contact with infected individuals as of last week, authorities said.
That’s partly because eastern Congo is also battling ongoing violence from rebels. In Ituri, attacks by the ISIS-backed Allied Democratic Force have cut off access to many villages and forced people to flee their homes, including those sheltering in overcrowded camps and others constantly on the move.
This photo taken on June 19, 2026 shows a view of a displacement camp near Bunia, capital of Ituri, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Xinhua via Getty Images
More than a month into the outbreak, officials believe the disease continues to outpace response efforts — and no one knows its true scale.
At the Kigonze displacement camp in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province, camp officials said Friday that 10 people had died last week in unusual circumstances, raising the fear of a possible outbreak in the camp of over 20,000 displaced people.
There had been no Ebola case confirmed at the site, camp officials said, but added that the death rate was unprecedented and called for investigation.
The U.N. refugee agency has said at least 2 million people forcibly displaced from their homes, including over 320,000 refugees, live in areas at risk of Ebola in Congo.
In a statement on Friday, the agency said it was “deeply concerned by the accelerating spread” of the virus and “the growing risks it poses to displaced communities across the region.”
“If a disease or epidemic were to spread among the thousands of people living at this (Kigonze) site, it would be a real catastrophe given our already very precarious living conditions,” said Charité Banza, a civil society leader in Ituri.
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