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00:03 Report | Warner Poland
00:14 Thierno Balde | World Health Organization
00:38 John James | UNICEF spokesperson
01:12 Trish Newport | Doctors Without Borders

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0:01 - 0:11
As if the outbreak weren't difficult enough to combat on its own - matters are compounded by locals who are scared and distrustful of the health authorities.

0:11 - 0:26
- SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Thierno Baldé, Incident Manager, Bundibugyo virus disease, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World Health Organization (WHO): 

"Yesterday one of our ambulances was attacked here, you know, one of the ambulances of the response operation was attacked here in Bunia. And we are really quite extremely, very regularly challenged by these situations, by these attacks on healthcare services."  

0:26 - 0:34
Another complicating factor is that doctors don't yet have an approved treatment method for this particular Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.

0:34 - 0:58
1. SOUNDBITE (English) John James, UNICEF spokesperson:
"We don't have a vaccine to deploy, there are things being tested but we're not at the place where we have approved things to use and that obviously makes it tricky. You're really just trying to get people to treatment centres so that they're not infecting other people and, of course, you know, supporting them with supportive care and when they're in those centres, you know, they have a much greater chance of survival. 

0:58 - 1:03
So far the outbreak is consistently outpacing all efforts to contain it.

1:03 - 1:30
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Trish Newport, Emergency Coordinator, MSF:
“Here, the speed and growth and spread of this outbreak is much, much bigger. It's much faster and spreads much bigger than the outbreak in 2014 or the outbreak in 2018. This is extremely concerning. // We see family members that come in who have had 15 people in their family die. We rapidly need to scale up to be able to prevent more deaths from happening, more families and communities from being impacted.”

1:30 - 1:46
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The location of the outbreak is also worrying experts. Situated along the borders with several countries including Uganda and South Sudan, observers fear the outbreak could cross over. So far at least that doesn't seem to be the case

1:46  - 2:04
the focus remains on finally getting ahead of the outbreak in the hardest hit areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.