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The UN has warned that the global response to Ebola must urgently outpace the virus as deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) approach 3,000.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, said the outbreak was expanding faster than containment efforts, in spite of a significant scale-up by humanitarian agencies and Congolese authorities.
Ebola spreads through direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person, or contaminated materials, making early detection and isolation critical to breaking transmission chains.
“The response is growing and has been scaled up, but the virus is moving faster,” Fletcher said.
