As a terrifying outbreak of Ebola virus spreads across west Africa, the world is beginning to wake up to the threat of a public health disaster in the region – and possibly more widely – but efforts to contain the epidemic require much more local co-ordination and global support. With more than 1,100 cases and 660 deaths reported so far, this is not only the largest Ebola epidemic to date but also the first to threaten urban west Africa, where populations are larger and more mobile than in the relatively isolated central parts of the continent affected previously.
隨著可怕的埃博拉病毒在西非各地不斷蔓延，世界開始對西非（抑或更廣泛地區）爆發一場公共健康災難的威脅警覺起來，但遏制疫情需要當地更多的合作和全球的支持。迄今報導的感染人數超過1100人，死亡人數爲660人，這不僅是歷史上最嚴重的埃博拉疫情，而且還是該病毒首次威脅城鎮化率更高的西非地區——與先前爆發疫情的相對封閉的中非地區相比，西非人口更多，而且流動性也更強。
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