Ebola count tops 9,000 as mistrust slows the response

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCongo's Ebola outbreak is now the deadliest in the country's history, and the reason it keeps growing is not what most people assume.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAl Jazeera reports the Bundibugyo strain is driving it, and health workers are running into mistrust from the communities they are trying to protect.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEarlier today the count passed nine thousand confirmed cases. Is that number still climbing, or has it levelled off?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe AP and ABC both say containment efforts are faltering, so no, it has not levelled off. We don't have a fresh daily figure.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFaltering how?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMostly through people. If a family doesn't trust the clinic, a sick relative stays home, and that is how a chain of infection keeps going.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo this is less a shortage of supplies and more a shortage of believing the person in the protective suit.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe reports point to mistrust, yes. Why it runs so deep isn't spelled out in the data, and I won't guess.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFor a viewer who just tuned in, give me the plain background on this virus.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorEbola is a severe viral illness that spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of sick people. Bundibugyo is one particular strain of it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd who is hit hardest right now?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCommunities in Congo, and the health workers who go door to door. Al Jazeera's editors call it a serious global public health emergency.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGlobal. So should people far away be worried tonight?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe coverage we have doesn't say the virus has spread abroad. It says growing spread inside Congo, and that is concern enough.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIs there a competing view on how to fix it?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOur reports don't lay out a debate. The common thread is that outreach has to win people over before the medicine can work.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou can't airlift trust.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNo. I've covered a few emergencies where the trucks arrived on time and the people still stayed away.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhat should we be tracking in the days ahead?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWhether the count keeps rising, where the newest cases turn up, and whether communities begin to open their doors to responders.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo you're telling me it's a supply chain problem and a trust problem, and the supplies aren't the bottleneck.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe knock is the hard part, Hank. It always is.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRex has the scoreboard, where the only thing anyone is afraid of is a missed field goal.