介绍： On August 1, 2018, four cases of Ebola virus disease were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. Since then, health officials have reported at least 2,408 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola in the country’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces. Over 1,600 people have died. To date, this is t...

介绍： On August 1, 2018, four cases of Ebola virus disease were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. Since then, health officials have reported at least 2,408 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola in the country’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces. Over 1,600 people have died. To date, this is the worst Ebola epidemic recorded in the DRC, and the second largest recorded outbreak of the disease globally.
The United States quickly responded to the new health emergency. In September 2018, just about one month after the new outbreak was confirmed in the DRC, the United States declared the outbreak an emergency and bolstered its support by deploying a Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART, to the DRC. Comprised of disaster and health experts from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DART team began to coordinate the U.S. Government response to the outbreak, while working closely with local officials, the international community, and relief agencies.

2018年8月1日，刚果民主共和国（DRC）确诊3个埃博拉感染病例。从那以后，卫生部工作人员已报道过至少2408起确诊的病例，同时还指出刚果北基伍省和伊图利省都很有可能爆发埃博拉病例。已有1600多人死亡。目前为止，这是刚果史上最严重的埃博拉疫情，也是全球范围内规模第二大的埃博拉疫情爆发。
美国迅速响应了这次新出现的健康紧急情况。2018年9月，也就是刚果确认这次新疫情爆发的仅大概一个月后，美国就宣布这次疫情的爆发是紧急情况，同时美国也加大了支持的力度，方式是成立了灾难救援反应小组（DAR）派往刚果。这只小组由美国国际开发署（USAID）、美国疾病控制预防中心的多位灾难与卫生专家组成。DART小组开始配合美国政府响应这次疫情爆发，与此同时，也在与当地工作人员、国际社会、多家救灾机构紧密合作。