At least 220 people are believed to have died from the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa,

with suspected cases now nearing 1,000.

The Director General of the World Health Organization warned the outbreak is spreading so quickly

that response efforts are struggling to keep pace.

The epicenter remains in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

where deep mistrust of health authorities

is complicating containment efforts.

Funerals organized by the Red Cross teams are now taking place under military and police escort

after several health care facilities were attacked in recent days.

Here's how one Red Cross volunteer described the resistance she's encountered.

We've come to tell the people of Bibo Colomani that the disease is here.

Unfortunately, we're facing resistance, and some people want to stone us, but we're not going to give up.

We're continuing to tell them that the disease is here.

Some accept it and others don't. We fear that because the resistance is strong, people will continue to die, but we're not giving up. For more on the outbreak and efforts to contain it,

we're joined now by Dr. Saline Gounder, editor at large for Public Health at KFF Health News. Thanks for being with us.

My pleasure. You were on the ground back in 2014 during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

As you watch this outbreak unfold, what stands out to you most about the response?

You have many of the same conditions that we saw during the 2014-2016 West African epidemic.

So, again, we have no vaccine, no specific treatment, which at the time was the case with that species of Ebola.

We're seeing delayed detection in part because of difficulties with contact tracing, a health care system that is dysfunctional, cross-border

spread in part by migrant workers.

On top of that, you have armed conflict, you have these militants backed by the Rwandan government

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