2026年5月15日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:34 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名十多年前感染埃博拉并康复的纽约医生表示，他为身处刚果东部偏远省份救治最新一轮疫情的医护人员感到担忧。
“我真正担心的群体是医护人员，因为他们会在患者传染性最强的时候与其密切接触，尤其是在患者临终前后，”布朗大学急诊室医师、公共卫生教授克雷格·斯宾塞博士周五对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说道。
刚果东部伊图里省当局正在应对新一轮埃博拉疫情。非洲疾病预防控制中心周五宣布，该疫情已造成至少246例疑似病例，其中65人死亡。
这是刚果自1976年以来的第17次埃博拉疫情。2014年至2016年间的一次最严重疫情导致1.1万多人死亡。
“我们非常清楚，该国拥有抗疫经验，但疫情发生的地区局势高度动荡，人道主义局势持续恶化，人口从南苏丹流向乌干达和其他地区，”世界卫生组织卫生紧急预警与响应行动主任阿卜迪·拉赫曼·马哈茂德博士在周五的新闻发布会上说道。
斯宾塞于2014年9月在几内亚与无国界医生组织合作时感染了埃博拉病毒。他当时在几内亚工作了三周，照料埃博拉患者。
次月，也就是2014年10月17日，他回到纽约市后开始自行监测健康状况，每天两次测量体温。
随后在2014年10月23日，也就是回国不到一周后，他出现了发烧症状，被救护车送往当时指定的埃博拉治疗中心——贝尔维尤医院。
卫生部门对他的公寓进行了检测和消毒，他当时的未婚妻和两名朋友被隔离。
“我感染的是扎伊尔型埃博拉病毒，这种病毒的死亡率似乎最高，但所有埃博拉病毒都会引发类似的症状：极度疲劳，最终发展为呕吐、腹泻、严重虚弱和体重下降，”斯宾塞说道。
他在贝尔维尤医院住院19天后完全康复。治疗期间，他接受了抗病毒药物和实验性疗法的联合治疗，还接受了埃博拉康复者的输血。
“跟你说吧，19天里我只能待在一个房间里，只有一扇小窗、一块小小的屏幕……医护人员每天穿着防护服进来几次，这就是我全部的人际互动，”斯宾塞说道。“但我很幸运，活了下来。而大多数感染埃博拉病毒的人都没能活下来，尤其是我当时在西非和几内亚照料的那些患者。”
据哥伦比亚广播公司医疗记者塞琳·贡德里博士介绍，此次最新疫情被认为是本迪布焦型埃博拉病毒（BDV）。贡德里表示，此前已知这种病毒仅引发过两次疫情：2007年在乌干达的疫情造成55例病例，2012年在刚果的疫情造成57例病例。
她说，目前没有获批用于治疗本迪布焦型埃博拉病毒的疫苗或疗法。
“医疗专业人士似乎非常担忧能否控制此次疫情，”贡德里说道。“在我们得知这一消息时，疫情已经相当严重了，已经出现了多例死亡。而且对于这种埃博拉毒株，我们既没有治疗方法，也没有疫苗。”
非洲疾病预防控制中心报告称，截至目前仅检测了20份样本，其中13份呈阳性。
美国过去是埃博拉疫情应对行动中最大的外部参与方，但如今专家们担忧特朗普政府解散美国国际开发署以及美国退出世界卫生组织会带来的影响。
斯宾塞表示，他认为美国国际开发署的关停与此次疫情直到周五才正式宣布之间可能存在关联。他还指出，白宫目前没有大流行病防备与响应办公室主任一职也令人担忧。特朗普于2025年2月任命杰拉尔德·帕克担任该办公室主任，但他同年晚些时候辞职，该职位一直空缺。
“目前我们不具备这种能力，”他在谈及快速应对全球疫情时说道。“我们没有大流行病防备与响应办公室的主任，也没有相关人员。我们没有人员在国务院和疾控中心之间进行协调，也没有人员负责与外国机构以及世界卫生组织打交道。我们抛弃了过去十年乃至过去五年间艰难学到的很多经验教训。”
斯宾塞表示，在特朗普政府采取这些行动之前，美国本会在疫情爆发前就向刚果派遣美国国际开发署和美国疾控中心的工作人员。
“在特朗普第二届政府任期开始前，美国国际开发署本会已经进驻当地，”斯宾塞说道。“疾控中心也会随时待命，甚至可能在埃博拉新疫情爆发前就已经抵达，因为我们当时在很多国家都有部署，提前建立了合作关系。”
不过，尽管存在这些问题，斯宾塞仍表示美国仍有能力应对埃博拉这类病毒。他指出，尽管埃博拉死亡率高，但“传播能力并不强”。他还提到了美国本月应对荷兰邮轮上致命汉坦病毒疫情的响应行动。目前已有18名登船的美国人在内布拉斯加大学医学中心的隔离单元接受监测。
“过去几周，我们看到内布拉斯加州的国家隔离单元以及美国各地的十多个医疗中心都能够应对汉坦病毒、埃博拉这类极高风险病原体，”斯宾塞说道。“这些都是我们国家做出的承诺，这在一定程度上要归功于十年前像我这样的病例。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/health-officials-battle-new-ebola-outbreak-doctor-survived-virus-speaks-out/
New York doctor who survived Ebola says he fears for healthcare workers treating the virus
May 15, 2026 / 11:34 PM EDT / CBS News
A New York doctor who contracted and survived Ebola more than a decade ago says he is worried for healthcare workers who are at the center of treating the latest outbreak in a remote province of eastern Congo.
“Healthcare workers are the group that I’m really concerned about because they had very close contact with people when they’re most contagious, particularly around the time of folks’ death,” Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency room physician and public health professor at Brown University, told CBS News on Friday.
Authorities in eastern Congo’s Ituri province are contending with a new Ebola outbreak that is suspected in at least 246 cases, including 65 deaths, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.
This is the 17th Ebola outbreak in the Congo since 1976. One of the worst outbreaks killed more than 11,000 people between 2014 and 2016.
“What we know very well that the country has experience, but the region where it is happening is highly volatile with the humanitarian situation going on and the population moving around from South Sudan to Uganda and other parts,” Dr. Abdi Rahman Mahamud, World Health Organization director of health emergency alert and response operations, said during a news conference Friday.
Spencer contracted Ebola while working with the nonprofit group Doctors Without Borders in Guinea in September 2014. He was in Guinea for three weeks working with Ebola patients.
When he returned to New York City the following month, arriving home on Oct. 17, 2014, he said he began to self-monitor, taking his temperature twice a day.
Then on Oct. 23, 2014, just under a week after returning home, he developed a fever and was rushed by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola treatment center at the time.
Health officials tested and decontaminated his apartment, and his fiancée at the time and two friends were quarantined.
“The one that I was infected with, the Zaire strain, seems to have the highest mortality, but they all produce pretty similar symptoms of fatigue that ultimately leads to vomiting, diarrhea, incredible weakness and weight loss,” Spencer said.
He was hospitalized at Bellevue for 19 days and made a full recovery. He was treated with a combination of antiviral and experimental treatments, as well as blood transfusions from an Ebola survivor.
“Let me tell you, 19 days in a room by yourself, other than a small window, a tiny screen… and providers who came in a few times a day dressed in space suits. That’s your only human interaction,” Spencer said. “I’m lucky though, because I’m alive, and the majority of people that were infected with Ebola are not, particularly the people that I was taking care of in West Africa and Guinea at that time.”
According to CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Céline Gounder, the latest outbreak is believed to be a strain known as the Bundibugyo ebolavirus, or BDV. Gounder says that strain has only been responsible for two known outbreaks prior to this, a 2007 outbreak in Uganda with 55 cases and an outbreak in the Congo in 2012 with 57 cases.
She said there are no approved vaccines or treatments for BDV.
“Medical professionals seem very concerned about the possibility or the ability to contain this,” Gounder said. “It’s already a big outbreak at the point that we’re hearing about it. There have already been a number of deaths. And this is a strain of Ebola for which we have no treatment, no vaccines.”
The Africa CDC reported that of only 20 samples tested so far, 13 have been confirmed positive.
The U.S. has been the single largest external player in Ebola outbreak response in the past, but now experts worry about the impact of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and its withdrawal of the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
Spencer said he believes it’s possible there’s a connection between the shutdown of USAID and the fact that the latest outbreak was not officially announced until Friday. He said it’s also concerning that the White House does not have a director for its Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response. Gerald Parker, who Trump tapped to run the office in February 2025, resigned later that year, and the position has remain unfilled.
“Right now, we don’t have that capacity,” he said of responding quickly to global outbreaks. “We don’t have a director or anyone in the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response. We don’t have anyone coordinating across the State Department and the CDC, and our relations with foreign actors and the WHO. We’ve gotten rid of a lot of those lessons we learned the hard way over the past decade, and over the past five years.”
Prior to the latest moves by the Trump administration, Spencer said, the U.S. would have likely had USAID and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials on the ground in the Congo before the outbreak.
“Before the second Trump administration, USAID would have been on the ground,” Spencer said. “The CDC would have been on the ground at a moment’s notice, maybe even before a moment’s notice of a new outbreak of Ebola because we were in a bunch of countries. We created relationships beforehand.”
Despite those issues, though, Spencer said he believes the U.S. is still capable of dealing with a virus like Ebola, which he says “is not that great at spreading” despite its high mortality rate. He noted the U.S. response this month to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship. Eighteen Americans who were aboard the ship are currently being monitored in a quarantine unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
“We’ve seen over the past couple weeks with the national quarantine unit we have in Nebraska and the over a dozen centers that we have around the U.S. that are capable of taking care of very high consequence pathogens like hantavirus and Ebola,” Spencer said. “These were all commitments that we made as a country, particularly and partly because of cases like my own a decade ago.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/health-officials-battle-new-ebola-outbreak-doctor-survived-virus-speaks-out/