00:00The Ebola outbreak in one of Congo's most vulnerable regions is the fastest growing on record.
00:07Nearly 5,000 cases have been reported, including more than 2,300 deaths.
00:12Doctors Without Borders says a massive scale-up of the response is urgently needed to contain the rapidly spreading outbreak.
00:23But the number one thing is community engagement.
00:26The community needs to be aware about the outbreak, they need to be involved in the response,
00:32and they need to know what the signs and symptoms are and what to do if they get sick.
00:37And this today is not happening in every single place where there are Ebola cases.
00:45Congo's deadliest Ebola outbreak on record is tearing families apart, leaving communities devastated.
00:53I will say that this outbreak is horrible.
00:56It's horrible. It's horrible for families.
00:58We see family members that come in who have had 15 people in their family die.
01:04We rapidly need to scale up to be able to prevent more deaths from happening,
01:08more families and communities from being impacted.
01:12This is Congo's 17th and largest Ebola outbreak and its deadliest.
01:17It's already surpassed the country's 2018 to 2020 toll.
01:21The WHO warns it could even overtake West Africa's 2014-16 outbreak, the deadliest Ebola epidemic in history.
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