BOBBIE BATTISTA, CNN ANCHOR: The governor of Zaire's capital has closed the city to anyone travelling from the Kikwit area. And while Ebola appears to have spread somewhat, the world...</s>GARY STRIEKER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The government was trying to find us. They did not want us to be there. The fact that we were broadcasting from Kikwit was a source of embarrassment to them. We were in the center of the epidemic, which at that time was probably the biggest news story going. And there was this tremendous fascination and fear that people had of this disease. No one knew, generally, how contagious it was. What they did was to quarantine Kikwit. No one could go in. No one could go out. The Ebola virus is a type of hemorragic fever. It starts with flu-like symptoms or headaches, and then what actually the disease does is to start breaking down organs in the body. Scientists are still trying to find the carrier. No one really knows how it starts. Ebola is still very frightening to many people. They don't know how to deal with it, but what they do know is now how to recognize it. And if they suspect that there is an outbreak of Ebola, they now have a much better understanding about what to do about it.
CNN 20: Ebola Outbreak in Zaire, May 11, 1995