[Judy Woodruff, Cnn Anchor:] A team of specialists from the United States is in Uganda examining the recent Ebola virus outbreak that has claimed 41 lives. CNN's Charlayne Hunter-Gault has more from Uganda.
[Charlayne Hunter-gault, Cnn Correspondent:] They arrived in two small planes loaded with equipment to tackle a big problem: refrigerators to preserve specimens, masks and gloves and other protective gear, and the technology to run a full-fledged laboratory.
[Pierre Rollin, Centers For Disease Control:] We're going to collect specimen to confirm the diagnostic of Ebola in the different patients that are hospitalized and the ones that is going to be brought in, because they suspect it.
[Hunter-gault:] The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control will be joining the World Health Organization in helping the government track and manage cases. The government is optimistic.
[Christus Kiyonga, Ugandan Health Minister:] We are confident that we will contain this disease, because already within an operation of less than a week, we can see very positive responses from the population.
[Hunter-gault:] International experts are giving the government high marks for its management of the outbreak, saying that its previous experience with HIV AIDS and other infectious diseases helped prepare it to be proactive. Meanwhile, WHO's Dr. Guenael Rodier and his team will be coordinating all teams being deployed to trace the contacts of infected victims back to their homes, and bring them in for testing: a key element in containing the virus spread by contact with body fluids. Even a handshake can do it. Working with the CDC and local authorities, they also hope to confront the delicate issue of cultural practices that involve communal hand-washing at funerals, thought to be a major source of the spread of the virus. [on camera]: The CDC team says it isn't exactly sure how long it will take to complete its work. It could take days. It could be weeks. It could be months. But it is proceeding on the optimistic assumption that they're dealing with a virus that's basically contained and not spreading. Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN, Gulu, Uganda.