00:01The Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo began months before it was officially declared.
00:07The World Health Organization told a news conference in Bunia on Monday.
00:13It's now the fastest growing Ebola outbreak on record.
00:17The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda declared on the 15th of May.
00:27Our studies now under Professor Oka, it's shown through sequencing.
00:33Ebola started in February.
00:36The outbreak is unfolding under challenging conditions, including strikes by some unpaid health workers,
00:43threats from rebel groups, and misinformation that Ebola isn't real.
00:52But if you ask me for a single challenge, I'll talk about community engagement,
00:58because we need to raise awareness.
01:00We need to explain more to our fellow citizens,
01:03because a population that has understood the disease, as we saw in Eru,
01:08will itself report cases, it will raise alerts, and the response team can come and support.
01:19The current outbreak is also killing people faster than any other.
01:25Confirmed cases have now reached more than 4,000, including close to 2,000 deaths,
01:32according to the latest government figures.
01:34The West Africa outbreak in 2014 killed more than 11,000 people out of some 28,000 cases,
01:43but took about eight months to reach 1,000 deaths.
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