00:00The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has become the deadliest in the country's
00:06history, with more than 2,300 people now dead. It is also the largest Ebola outbreak the country
00:13has seen by a number of cases as health authorities continue to report new infections.
00:19There have been 4,945 confirmed cases so far, including 101 reported in the past 24 hours.
00:27This is the country's 17th Ebola outbreak and it became its largest by number of cases in late July.
00:34The death toll has also risen much faster than during the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa,
00:41which remains the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever recorded.
00:44That outbreak took almost five months to reach 1,000 deaths.
00:47In the DRC, the death toll passed 2,000 in less than three months.
00:51There is currently no approved vaccine for the Bundibozho species of Ebola behind this outbreak,
00:57although several experimental vaccines are in development.
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