00:00A recent Ebola outbreak has killed more than 100 people in Congo, and experts say there's no vaccine for this
00:07strain.
00:07According to scientists, Ebola is highly contagious and can be contracted via bodily fluids such as vomit, blood, or semen.
00:16The disease it causes is rare but severe and often fatal.
00:20The Ebola virus is actually a group of viruses.
00:23It is a genus of viruses with a number of species in it.
00:30And so there's about five-ish viruses, we'll say.
00:34And three of them cause most of the human disease that you've heard about.
00:40One of those is currently transmitting and causing an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
00:48While some species in the Ebola family have vaccines, some do not.
00:53According to the Center for Disease Control CDC, there are four species that causes illness in people.
01:00Essentially, what's being done is really, really solid boots-on-the-ground epidemiology.
01:06So contact tracing, case management, isolation, and quarantine.
01:12There are efforts to determine the cross-immunity between the Zaire strain and the Bundibuccio strain.
01:19So determining how effective the vaccine we have might be during this outbreak.
01:27And really trying to contain the outbreak from spreading further.
01:32Health care workers and family members caring for sick patients face the highest risks, according to experts.
01:38Scientists say it can be difficult to identify Ebola at first because early symptoms mimic those of common diseases such
01:46as malaria or flu.
01:48One of the biggest problems with this outbreak is that it's taken a while to determine what it was.
01:54What was causing these illnesses and deaths.
01:57And that means that we're behind what would be an exponential curve of transmission.
02:02So that's why the outbreak was so large when it was first announced.
02:06According to some health experts, the death toll is probably much higher than we currently believe
02:11because it took longer to identify the outbreak and that allowed it to spread even faster.
02:16And generally coming to the outbreak.
02:16So we're, uh, the Zaire spa and the McDonaldi use the outbreak to eliminate stealth.
02:17We're trying to promote emotional champion.
02:18We're thankful, but, um, FROM SAC in our death tolls will continue to consider
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