肯尼亚卫生部称，该国于10月17日星期六确认了4例新的埃博拉邦迪布焦病毒感染病例，其中包括曾为该国首例患者提供治疗的3名医护人员。至此，该国确诊的埃博拉病例总数达到7例。
Kenya confirmed four new cases of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus on Saturday (Oct 17), including three health workers who treated the country's first patient, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to seven, the health ministry said. The other new case is a male relative of the index patient, who died.
另一名新确诊患者为首例患者的男性亲属，该亲属自10月6日起便处于隔离状态。
The relative had been in quarantine since Oct 6, the ministry said in a statement.
这些病例是肯尼亚境内首次出现的传染案例。首例患者于10月3日从刚果抵达肯尼亚。不过卫生部表示，他们已追踪并隔离了几乎所有与该患者有过接触的人，目前尚无证据表明病毒正在社区中传播。这3名医护人员分别为29岁、35岁和32岁的两名男性和一名女性，他们在10月3日和4日负责照料首例患者，自10月9日起便处于隔离状态。4名新确诊患者出现症状并接受诊断时均已在隔离中。
The cases are the first known infections passed on inside Kenya, where the first patient arrived from Congo on Oct 3. But the ministry says it has traced and quarantined nearly all of his contacts and there is no evidence that the virus is spreading in the community The three health workers, two men and a woman aged 29, 35 and 32 respectively, managed the index case on Oct 3 and 4 and had been in quarantine since Oct 9, it said. All four new patients were already in quarantine when they developed symptoms and were diagnosed.
卫生部称，此前确诊的第二、第三例患者目前病情稳定，对支持性治疗反应良好。数据显示，在130名被列为密切接触者的人群中，已有128人被找到并实施隔离，这一比例高达98.5%，超过了世界卫生组织设定的85%的阻断病毒传播所需标准。
The second and third patients confirmed earlier are stable and responding well to supportive treatment, the ministry said. It said 128 of 130 listed contacts, or 98.5 percent, had been traced and placed in quarantine, higher than the 85 percent global benchmark it said was needed to break the chain of transmission.
肯尼亚的这些病例与刚果的埃博拉疫情相关。此次疫情是有记录以来规模第二大的埃博拉疫情，已造成超过9000例感染病例及4000多人死亡。目前尚无针对埃博拉邦迪布焦病毒株的获批疫苗或治疗方法。
Kenya's cases are linked to the Ebola epidemic in Congo, the second-largest outbreak ever recorded, with more than 9,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths. There are no approved vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.
肯尼亚的首例患者是一名男性，他在刚果患病约一个月后经陆路前往乌干达，并于10月3日乘机抵达内罗毕。该患者于10月5日去世。他的入境引发了人们对刚果与乌干达边境检疫工作的担忧——该边境自5月起便处于关闭状态；同时人们也担心内罗毕乔莫·肯雅塔国际机场的检疫措施是否到位。
The first Kenyan case was a man who had been ill in Congo for about a month before travelling by road to Uganda and flying to Nairobi on Oct 3. He died on Oct 5. His arrival has raised concerns about screening at the Congo-Uganda border, which has been closed since May, and at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
该部表示，追踪其余两名接触者的工作仍在进行。“由于没有社区传播的证据，对公众的风险仍然较低，”该部补充说，对旅行、贸易或公共集会没有限制。
Efforts to trace the remaining two contacts were ongoing, the ministry said. "The risk to the general public remains low as there is no evidence of community transmission," it said, adding that there were no restrictions on travel, trade or public gatherings.