'Ebola has tortured us': Fear as DR Congo outbreak spreads

People living close to the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak have told the BBC of their fear, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned cases may be spreading faster than originally thought. One man in the Democratic Republic of Congo's north-eastern Ituri province said infected people were dying "very fast", adding: "Ebola has tortured us." The virus is believed to have killed 136 people in the DR Congo, officials say, with more than 514 cases now suspected in the country. One person has died in neighbouring Uganda. The WHO's Dr Anne Ancia told the BBC that the more the UN agency investigated the outbreak, the clearer it became that cases had spread to other areas. Modelling by the London-based MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis released on Monday suggested there had been "substantial" under-detection, and that it could not rule out there had already been more than 1,000 cases. The study suggested that the current outbreak was "larger than currently ascertained" and that its "true magnitude remains uncertain". A man who spoke to BBC News and identified himself as Bigboy said people were "really scared" and doing what they could to protect themselves. He said