CNN10 - 3/11/19 刚果埃博拉治疗中心遇袭;美国最长时间牛市也有隐忧📈

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CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Today's edition of CNN 10 explains why our American viewers are a little more tired than usual this Monday and how they have a little more evening daylight to look forward to.

I'm Carl Azuz.

First the Democratic Republic of Congo, a large country in Central Africa is struggling with the second largest outbreak of the Ebola virus ever.

There've been more than 900 cases in the DRC since last August.

Ebola is highly contagious for people who've had contact with the bodily fluids like blood of others who've had it.

It causes fever, severe headaches, sometimes severe bleeding.

And despite the fact that an experimental vaccine is now available as well as new medications for Ebola patients 574 people, more than half of those who've contracted Ebola in this latest outbreak have died.

Ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo only creates another problem for health workers who are trying to stop the spread of the disease.

There are dozens of militias in the northeastern DRC where this Ebola outbreak is.

Militants attacked a treatment center on Saturday killing a police officer and wounding a medical worker and two attacks on Ebola clinics last month forced the aid group Doctors Without Borders to put some of its efforts on hold.

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