[ti:WHO to Deploy Experimental Ebola Vaccines to Uganda] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]The World Health Organization (WHO) says [00:05.04]it is preparing to deploy experimental Ebola vaccines to Uganda. [00:13.04]The WHO's representative in Uganda, Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, [00:20.44]said Wednesday the deployment would happen in about "two weeks." [00:25.88]The two vaccines being sent to the East African nation [00:31.32]are still undergoing development. [00:34.40]But they aim to target the Ebola version [00:38.60]currently spreading in Uganda. [00:41.56]One vaccine was developed by a U.S.-based nonprofit, [00:46.92]the Sabin Vaccine Institute. [00:50.36]The other was developed by Britain's Oxford University [00:55.44]and the Serum Institute in India. [00:59.72]"We are getting closer and closer to deploying vaccines," [01:04.56]Woldemariam told The Associated Press. [01:08.32]"This is just another tool that we are going to try." [01:13.60]Officials said health workers in Uganda [01:17.72]were making final preparations to receive [01:21.24]and give out the experimental vaccines. [01:25.36]Ebola is a virus that can cause severe bleeding [01:30.12]and organ failure. [01:31.76]In serious cases, it can lead to death. [01:35.64]A version of Ebola that came from Sudan [01:40.16]is currently spreading in Uganda. [01:43.32]So far, the virus has infected at least 60 people [01:49.32]and killed 44 in Uganda, WHO officials said. [01:56.80]Those numbers do not include people who likely died of Ebola [02:02.44]before the latest outbreak was confirmed. [02:06.44]Uganda declared the outbreak on September 20. [02:11.36]It happened in a rural farming community [02:15.12]about 150 kilometers west of the capital, Kampala. [02:21.36]Officials in the area have issued stay-at-home orders [02:26.44]and other restrictions in an effort to contain virus spread. [02:33.16]Ebola is passed through contact with bodily fluids [02:37.72]of a sick person or by infected materials. [02:42.00]Symptoms can include high temperature, [02:46.08]vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and bleeding. [02:51.16]The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [02:56.00]states that scientists do not know [02:59.48]where the Ebola virus came from. [03:02.24]But based on similar viruses, [03:05.52]they believe it likely starts in "bats or non-human primates." [03:12.28]Ugandan officials are still investigating [03:16.00]the start of the current outbreak. [03:19.16]Uganda has already had several Ebola outbreaks, [03:24.08]including one in 2000 that killed more than 200 people. [03:29.88]An outbreak of Ebola that started in West Africa in 2014 [03:36.04]killed more than 11,000 people. [03:39.80]Ebola was discovered in 1976 [03:44.08]during two different outbreaks [03:46.76]that happened at the same time in Sudan [03:50.36]and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [03:53.80]The virus was first identified in a village in the Congo [03:59.36]near the Ebola River and that is where it got its name. [04:04.48]I'm Bryan Lynn. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM