2022年10月22日 VOA慢速英语：世卫组织向乌干达部署埃博拉实验性疫苗

  The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is preparing to deploy experimental Ebola vaccines to Uganda.
世界卫生组织（WHO）表示，它正准备在乌干达部署实验性埃博拉疫苗。
 
The WHO's representative in Uganda, Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, said Wednesday the deployment would happen in about "two weeks."
世卫组织驻乌干达代表约纳斯·泰格恩·沃尔德马里亚姆周三表示，部署将在大约“两周”内完成。
 
The two vaccines being sent to the East African nation are still undergoing development. But they aim to target the Ebola version currently spreading in Uganda.
被送往东非国家的两种疫苗仍在开发中。但他们的目标是针对目前在乌干达传播的埃博拉病毒。
 
One vaccine was developed by a U.S.-based nonprofit, the Sabin Vaccine Institute. The other was developed by Britain's Oxford University and the Serum Institute in India.
一种疫苗是由美国非营利组织萨宾疫苗研究所开发的。另一种是由英国牛津大学和印度血清研究所开发的。
 
"We are getting closer and closer to deploying vaccines," Woldemariam told The Associated Press. "This is just another tool that we are going to try."
“我们越来越接近部署疫苗，”沃尔德马里亚姆告诉美联社。“这只是我们要尝试的另一种工具。”
 
Officials said health workers in Uganda were making final preparations to receive and give out the experimental vaccines.
官员们说，乌干达的卫生工作者正在为接收和发放实验性疫苗做最后准备。
 
Ebola is a virus that can cause severe bleeding and organ failure. In serious cases, it can lead to death. A version of Ebola that came from Sudan is currently spreading in Uganda.
埃博拉病毒是一种可导致严重出血和器官衰竭的病毒。在严重的情况下，它可能导致死亡。一种来自苏丹的埃博拉病毒目前正在乌干达传播。
 
So far, the virus has infected at least 60 people and killed 44 in Uganda, WHO officials said. Those numbers do not include people who likely died of Ebola before the latest outbreak was confirmed.
乌干达于 9 月 20 日宣布疫情爆发。它发生在首都坎帕拉以西约 150 公里的农村农业社区。该地区的官员已发布居家令和其他限制措施，以遏制病毒传播。
 
Uganda declared the outbreak on September 20. It happened in a rural farming community about 150 kilometers west of the capital, Kampala. Officials in the area have issued stay-at-home orders and other restrictions in an effort to contain virus spread.
世卫组织官员说，到目前为止，该病毒已在乌干达感染了至少 60 人，并导致 44 人死亡。这些数字不包括在最新爆发确认之前可能死于埃博拉病毒的人。
 
Ebola is passed through contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or by infected materials. Symptoms can include high temperature, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and bleeding.
埃博拉病毒通过接触病人的体液或被感染的材料传播。症状可能包括高温、呕吐、腹泻、肌肉疼痛和出血。
 
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that scientists do not know where the Ebola virus came from. But based on similar viruses, they believe it likely starts in "bats or non-human primates." Ugandan officials are still investigating the start of the current outbreak.
美国疾病控制和预防中心表示，科学家们不知道埃博拉病毒是从哪里来的。但基于类似的病毒，他们认为它可能始于“蝙蝠或非人类灵长类动物”。乌干达官员仍在调查当前疫情的开始。
 
Uganda has already had several Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed more than 200 people. An outbreak of Ebola that started in West Africa in 2014 killed more than 11,000 people.
乌干达已经爆发了几次埃博拉疫情，其中包括 2000 年的一次，造成 200 多人死亡。2014 年在西非爆发的埃博拉病毒导致 11,000 多人死亡。
 
Ebola was discovered in 1976 during two different outbreaks that happened at the same time in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The virus was first identified in a village in the Congo near the Ebola River and that is where it got its name.
埃博拉病毒于 1976 年在苏丹和刚果民主共和国同时发生的两次不同爆发中被发现。该病毒最初是在刚果埃博拉河附近的一个村庄中发现的，因此得名。