Ebola cases in the DRC are doubling every 20 days with the outbreak outpacing response efforts [SOUND]

# The United Nations warns Ebola is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases doubling every 20 days. The number of infections has risen to three-thousand-200, including at least one-thousand-405 deaths. The outbreak, declared on May 15, is caused by a strain for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment. UN senior Ebola coordinator Julien Harneis says the outbreak is outpacing response efforts: