英语新闻 | 世卫组织：猴痘病毒已发生人际传播

英语新闻|世卫组织：猴痘病毒已发生人际传播

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that there will be more monkeypox cases identified as surveillance expands in non-endemic countries.

世界卫生组织5月21日表示，随着猴痘监测范围的扩大，未来可能会在非猴痘流行国家发现更多病例。

WHO's data show that as of Saturday, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 member states that are not endemic for monkeypox virus, with no associated deaths to date.

世卫组织的数据显示，截至5月21日，全球12个非猴痘流行国家已报告了92例确诊病例和28例疑似病例，到目前为止还没有相关的死亡报告。

The confirmed and suspected cases were mostly reported by Britain, Spain and Portugal, the rest from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States.

这些确诊和疑似病例主要来自英国、西班牙和葡萄牙，其余分布在澳大利亚、比利时、加拿大、法国、德国、意大利、荷兰、瑞典和美国。

Reported cases thus far have no established travel links to an endemic area, and cases have mainly but not exclusively been identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) seeking care in primary care and sexual health clinics, WHO said.

世卫组织表示，迄今为止报告的病例并无明确的猴痘流行地区旅行史，且主要但不限于是在寻求初级保健和性健康诊所治疗的男男性行为者中发现的。

All cases whose samples were confirmed by PCR have been identified as being infected with the West African clade.

所有通过聚合酶链反应（PCR）检测确认样本的病例都确定为感染了西非分支。

Genome sequence from a swab sample from a confirmed case in Portugal indicated a close match of the monkeypox virus causing the current outbreak to exported cases from Nigeria to Britain, Israel and Singapore in 2018 and 2019.

来自葡萄牙的一个确诊病例的拭子样本基因组序列表明，导致当前疫情的猴痘病毒与2018年和2019年从尼日利亚输出到英国、以色列和新加坡的病例密切匹配。

Available information suggests that human-to-human transmission is occurring among people in close physical contact with cases who are symptomatic.

现有信息显示，与有症状的病例发生密切身体接触的人群中正在发生人际传播。

Immediate actions should focus on informing those who may be most at risk for monkeypox infection with accurate information, in order to stop further spread, WHO said.

世卫组织表示，应立即采取行动，向可能最容易感染猴痘的人提供准确的信息，以发现和控制感染病例。

Endemic monkeypox disease is normally geographically limited to West and Central Africa. The identification of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox without any travel history to an endemic area in multiple countries is atypical, said WHO.

由于猴痘病例常多发于西非和中非地区，而目前多个国家报告的确诊和疑似病例却没有任何猴痘流行地区旅行史，这种情况并不正常。

It has issued an urgent appeal for countries to raise awareness about monkeypox and undertake comprehensive case finding and isolation (provided with supportive care), contact tracing and supportive care to limit further onward transmission.

因此，迫切需要提高对猴痘的认识并采取全面措施，及时发现并隔离病例、追踪接触者、提供支持性护理等以限制进一步传播。

Historically, vaccination against smallpox had been shown to be protective against monkeypox.

历史表明，接种天花疫苗可以有效预防猴痘。

However, as WHO declared the eradication of smallpox in 1980, cross-protective immunity from smallpox vaccination will be limited to older persons, and there is little immunity to monkeypox among younger people living in non-endemic countries since the virus has not been present there.

然而，在1980年世卫组织宣布消灭天花病毒后，天花疫苗接种的交叉免疫保护仅限于老年人，而生活在非猴痘流行国家的年轻人对猴痘几乎没有免疫力，因为那里并没有这种病毒。

surveillance

英[sɜːˈveɪləns]；美[sɜːrˈveɪləns]

n.盯梢，监督；【法】管制，监视

endemic

英[enˈdemɪk]；美[enˈdemɪk]

adj.某地特有的；（尤指疾病）地方性的；风土的；（动，植物）某些特产的

sequence

英[ˈsiːkwəns]；美[ˈsiːkwəns]

n.【数】数列，序列；顺序；连续；片段插曲

vt.使按顺序排列，安排顺序；【生化】确定…的顺序，确定…的化学结构序列