00:01An authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are struggling to isolate those suspected of having been infected with
00:07the deadly Ebola virus, as the number of cases continues to rise.
00:11According to a national response team manager, patients believed to have been infected with the highly contagious hemorrhagic fever have
00:19been mixed with the general population at regional hospitals.
00:21At present, it has been a week after confirmation of the outbreak in the Congolese Ituri province. Special Ebola treatment
00:28centers set up to deal with the patients in isolation remain empty.
00:32The World Health Organization said Friday that the outbreak is spreading rapidly and that it poses a very high risk
00:38for the entire country.
00:39There are almost now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths.
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