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There's a rare type of Ebola spreading in Central Africa, and there's no vaccine for it.

More than 160 people are suspected to have died from the virus. The numbers of cases and deaths have

been rising over the past few days,

and the World Health Organization has said it expects them to keep rising.

I'm deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic. People in the Democratic Republic of

Congo, the epicenter of this deadly outbreak, are living in fear.

I'm afraid of bringing the disease home to my family because I spend the whole day transporting

people on my motorbike taxi. I'm afraid of dying.

This disease is very dangerous. Last time it killed a lot of people. One person infected with

Ebola can infect more than five people.

We're truly afraid of this disease. And here in the United States, the government is

restricting entry for people coming not just from the DRC, but also from Uganda and South Sudan.

From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

And today on the global story, how worried should we be about this Ebola crisis?

And what does this latest outbreak tell us about how prepared or not we are for a possible global health crisis? Thank you. I'm James Gallagher, the BBC's Health and Science Correspondent,

and I also present Inside Health BBC Radio 4 Specialist Health Program.

James, we wanted to have you on this show because for the last several days,

we've been hearing a lot about Ebola.

It has been making headlines here ever since the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern.

After we saw that news from the WHO, we then saw the WHO chief say that he was deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the Ebola epidemic.

And I do want to understand how we got here.

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