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Medical teams in DRC face difficult conditions as the race to contain Ebola outbreak

Medical teams face brutal conditions as grave diggers work night and day to bury victims of the Ebola outbreak which continues to grip the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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00:00Medical teams in eastern DR Congo are facing brutal conditions as they work to contain the country's worst-recorded Ebola
00:08outbreak.
00:10More than 7,000 cases of the virus have been confirmed, including more than 3,000 deaths, according to Congolese
00:18authorities.
00:20There's no approved treatment or vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain behind the current outbreak.
00:27It's not easy, you know, to work in my country to see the community affected by a heart rate like
00:35Ebola without specific treatment.
00:40And to work in this environment with violence, difficult for patients to access in health care.
00:49So we are managing, even though it's not easy, but we make the best.
00:54Eastern DRC is an active conflict zone, making it difficult for health workers to access remote areas.
01:02They also face hostility from some communities, reluctant to accept strict burial protocols.
01:09The virus has now spread to seven Congolese provinces, but authorities say the outbreak may have peaked as infection rates
01:18appear to slow.
01:19So we'll continue the訴ers in spite of how aua is going toризing the virus is.
01:21No, no no.
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