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Mobile gold miners in eastern Congo complicate health workers' efforts to contain Ebola

Nearly 5,000 people have been infected and 2,325 have died, while mobile miners and remote sites make tracing and vaccination difficult, AP reported.

Summary by Hastings Tribune
Eleven-year-old Isaac Batisa searches for gold at a mining site in eastern Congo to help feed his family. The site is in Ituri province, the epicenter of a fast-growing Ebola outbreak. Miners work with few protections against the virus, and…

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abc News broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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