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The virus has killed more than 1,700 people in the Congo since the second-worst epidemic in the world a year ago. It is feared that the virus will spread in the main city of Goma or that it will spread across the Congolese border to Uganda.
Poor security conditions in the affected areas have hindered efforts to contain the outbreak and calls for foreign aid agencies to deploy more field staff have multiplied.
This month, Ronald Klein, a former coordinator of the US Ebola response, called on the White House to change its policy of keeping the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention out of the outbreak. Britain said many countries used security as a pretext for not sending experts to epidemics.
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently has more than 600 people on site, but its executive director, Mike Ryan, told reporters that many agencies could redouble their efforts and send more people.
"It's hard to fight without being your best ally in your clbad," Ryan told reporters about sending experts from the US Centers for Disease Control.
"But our colleagues at the US Centers for Disease Control have provided incredible support, both in Congo and in neighboring countries, and here in Geneva in our operations centers," Ryan said.
Health workers seek to block the virus by searching for potentially-at-risk individuals and vaccinating them, as well as anyone else who may be infected.
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