00:00Africa's latest Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 5,400 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of
00:09Congo, DRC.
00:11According to the continent's top health agency, Africa CDC, the outbreak, which has spread to other countries on the continent,
00:19has killed more than 5,300 people in the DRC and two each in Kenya and Uganda.
00:26The outbreak, which began in the DRC in May, has infected more than 10,000 people with 50% fatality
00:34rate according to the country's latest data,
00:37making it the fastest-growing and most widespread Ebola epidemic on record.
00:44Neighboring Uganda recorded 20 cases, almost all involving people who had travelled from the DRC before being declared Ebola-free
00:53in August.
00:54The outbreak, caused by the rare Budimbugio virus, which has no approved vaccine or treatment,
01:01is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids and causes hemorrhagic fever.
01:07In recent weeks, clinical trials of the Avebo vaccine, which has proved effective against a more common-designed strain of
01:15Ebola, have begun.
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