Special | 22m 40s | Video has closed captioning.
Three health workers risk their lives to battle Ebola in a war zone. FRONTLINE reports from inside the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo devastated by decades of conflict.
Aired: 12/23/19
♪ ♪ >> JOPHET (speaking French): ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (exhales) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (workers speaking local language) >> BOSCO (speaking local language): (workers speaking local language) (workers speaking local language) ♪ ♪ (people speaking local language) (crying) (people talking in background) (wailing) ♪ ♪ (onlookers crying, shouting) (people talking, singing) (crying, speaking local language) (people crying) (people singing) ♪ ♪ >> One of the world's deadliest diseases is being fought in one of the most dangerous regions.
(guns firing) >> Health workers are frequently attacked by Congolese who don't believe Ebola exists.
♪ ♪ >> A group stormed into a hospital where an Ebola team was meeting and killed an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (people talking in background) ♪ ♪ (man speaking local language) (speaking French): (spraying) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Rumors started swirling that the disease is a hoax invented by the government and foreigners to control the population... >> And although there's an Ebola vaccine, responders are struggling to contain the disease.
>> The violence has surged.
Ebola teams will arrive in a neighborhood to bury a body, and people just spontaneously attack.
>> BOSCO: (people talking in background) >> MAN 1: >> MAN 2: ♪ ♪ >> (speaking local language): ♪ ♪ (motorcycle revving) ♪ ♪ (rain falling steadily) >> BOSCO: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (sewing machine whirring) (children shrieking playfully) ♪ ♪ (people talking in background) ♪ ♪ (people singing) (singing continues) (singing continues) (birds chirping, man whistling) (signal beeping in car) (engine starts) (people talking, crying in background) >> ACTOR 1 (speaking local language): >> ACTOR 2: (children laughing) >> ACTOR 2: >> ACTOR 3: >> ACTOR 2: >> ACTOR 4: >> (singing) >> (singing) (man chanting with singers) (chanting) (siren blaring) >> (speaking French): ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> JOPHET: (people talking in background) ♪ ♪ (laughing) (speaking local language) (laughing) (speaking local language) (speaking French): (speaking softly) (voiceover): (talking in background) Mama.
(voiceover): (child crying) (Jophet talking softly) (people talking in background) (voiceover): (people talking in background) (speaking local language) Okay.
♪ ♪ (people talking in background) Ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh.
(chuckling) ♪ ♪ (speaking local language): (laughing) (laughs) ♪ ♪ >> The number of people becoming sick has reduced in urban towns and cities like Beni.
But doctors are still struggling to contain the disease in the villages farther out.
World Health Organization officials say they're hoping to have zero Ebola cases by the end of the year.
(people talking in background) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> BOSCO: (singing) ♪ ♪ >> JOPHET (speaking French): ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (car horn honking) (microphone rustling) ♪ ♪ (videographer breathing audibly) (people talking in background) >> MAN (speaking French): (people talking in background) >> MAN: Oui?
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