Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has claimed 2,000 lives. Here's why it is hard to contain

Congo's Ebola outbreak has become the fastest-spreading in history, according to PBS NewsHour. Health authorities there report four thousand three hundred eighty-one confirmed cases and two thousand eleven deaths, with the virus spreading nearly three times faster than the 2014-16 West Africa epidemic, which remains the deadliest on record.

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