Tensions are running high as officials fight to stop the rapid spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where aid workers tell the ABC they are already playing catch-up with the deadly disease.

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.

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KINSHASA, June 4 (Reuters) - Residents attacked an Ebola burial team in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province this week, forcing responders to abandon a coffin and raising fears of further transmission,

The Ebola outbreak has already spread to Uganda and threatens neighboring states such as war-ravaged South Sudan. It is rapidly becoming a major global health threat.

In her garden, traditional healer Mariam Kabika looked for ingredients for a concoction to treat Ebola, a deadly virus spreading in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. "I'm looking for eucalyptus leaves,

It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In a remote mining town at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, grief and mistrust are complicating efforts to stop the virus. Health workers are trying to treat the ill and bury the dead,

"Deeply alarming."

There is an effective vaccine for Ebola — but not for the variety spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trials are going on for several candidates. How long will it take?