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14 are health care workers. there's no cure and what makes the outbreak different from others is it reached the capital of guinea, 2 million people not far from an international airport. dr. sanjay gupta reports. >> reporter: you're about to go inside an isolation ward in guin guinea. there's a reason you may not have seen images like this before. these patients are fighting one of the deadliest diseases in the world, ebola. it disarmed their immune system, shut off their body's ability to clot and invaded the organs in their body. up to nine out of ten patients will die. but this horror is is...

And swift killer is striking in west africa. an ebola outbreak has killed at least 112 people in just the past few weeks. cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is in guinea where the deadly virus has now spread to the capital. >> reporter: you're about to go inside an isolation ward in guinea, there is a reason you may not have seen images like this before. these patients are fighting one of the deadliest diseases in the world, ebola. it disarmed their immune system, shut off the body's ability to clot. up to nine out of ten patients will die. but this horror is isolated in cona...

You've never seen on television. this is the isolation ward doctors without borders have set up to try to take care of these patients. as you point out, it's made its way to this capital city of 2 million people. there's an international airport here. that's the big concern. i tell you, carol, even just testing for this can sometimes be challenging. a simple blue box potentially carrying one of the most dangerous pathogens in the world on its way to be tested. in less than four hours we'll find out if he contains the ebola virus. te fate of three patients depends on what's inside. simply getti...

A large area off the main house that was sort of the isolation ward that just had cages and cages and cages and very, very sick cats. there was a large barn that also had cages and cages of cats. off of that barn were some pens with cats in them. you know, there was a trailer with cats. then come around the other side of the house, there's other pens with cats. >> deputy manager of cruelty investigations, ashley, and senior field responder, rowdy, join him on the rescue. >> anyone that looks at a situation like that would almost immediately wonder how somebody could care for that many animals....

The defense's objection to ov-12. >> it doesn't take long for the judge to affirm merithew's fears. >> he's removed from the cell he's in. he's put into an isolation ward. he's told why that is happening, for his own safety because people are saying you've put seminal fluids into foods you're sharing with other inmates, that you have the ability to have in your cell only because of your medical condition. if it's not true, why doesn't mr. merithew then have the absolute ability to say it's not true, i was just kidding around, ha ha, aren't i funny, or words to that effect and at least takes wh...