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It's a deadly virus that kills nearly 90% of its victims. we're talking about the ebola virus. in the capital city of guinea, more than 112 people have died. dr. sanjay gupta has been on the ground following the fight on this virus. >> reporter: when you think about this scenario here, itit's a widespread virus. they have to identify the -- the health care providers are often doing this as incredible risk to themselves. take a look at what they have to do to get inside one of the isolation wards. >> you may not have seen images like this before.

Even if they did, it could take days or weeks to get the results. 8:00 p.m., we get the call. >> two of these are positive. >> two of the three patients now have confirmed ebola. >> reporter: one thing to point out, from the time a person is exposed to when they get sick can range from two to 21 days, that's the incubation period. it's very important for the reasons we were talking about, a couple of days go by. could you get on an airplane and fly around the world? quite possible. it's not happened yet. that's one of the things these doctors are trying to prevent. these are the isolation ward...

>> reporter: two of the three patients have confirmed ebola. one thing i want to point out, erin, there's an incubation period. what that mean between the time somebody is exposed and they develop symptoms can be anywhere from 2 to 21 days. we're in the capital city with an international airport. patients who have been expose to ebola could epithet get on an international flight and fly around the world. it's a real concern. not likely to happen but a real concern. i'm here at the medicine, the doctor without borders camp where they have isolation wards. that's one of their concerns and that's...

The first came from the districts in the heavy forest in the southern part of the country. march 23rd, the government and world health organization announced 49 cases. 29 people are dead. doctors without pour ders and the w.h.o. sent teams in to help control the outbreak. just three days later, the number of cases jumps to 86 and by now, 62 deaths. isolations units are set up to control the spread. >> the virus is not transmitted to health workers and the families, this involves putting isolation wards and facilities. >> reporter: scared of what's lurking if their hometowns, some of the people...

>> basically taking good care of those infected. dealing with those infected that the virus is not transmitted to health workers and to the families, this involves putting up isolation wards and facilities. it also includes setting up lab facilities so we are able to test samples very fast, but also it involves information provided to the population and to the health workers. they have not been facing ebola before. this is the first time. people don't know about it much and health workers do not know much about it either. so we really need to provide this information out and we are working rea...