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Gold Miners Fuel Ebola Spread in Congo | Tulsa News
In eastern Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak, mobile gold miners—many children among them—are turning the region into a nightmare for containment: constantly moving between villages, ignoring hygiene, and evading health workers in remote, conflict-ridden zones. With no vaccine or treatment for this new strain, and no way to track their movements, infected miners could unknowingly spark new outbreaks across communities. For kids like 11-year-old Isaac, survival means scraping by for $2 a day, not avoiding disease. Gold mining, long tied to war and wealth, is now silently accelerating the spread of…
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