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Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenging

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has killed more than 1,000 people in eastern Congo as health officials race to contain the virus amid ongoing conflict, mistrust and the absence of an approved treatment.

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00:11There we see the number of cases increasing every single day. We see more and more community deaths,
00:18we see new cases in new areas, and what the response is today just can't catch up to the
00:25size of the spread of the outbreak today.
00:48There are places where you have one community death in a new area, and in a few days you have
00:5217
00:53new cases. It's such a great example of how infectious anyone is that stays in the community
01:00as soon as they have symptoms. So if we don't have proper surveillance in place, if we're not able
01:05to monitor every single person that was in contact with a confirmed case, every single person that's
01:10at risk of developing the disease, if we're not able to monitor this, the outbreak will continue.
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