Exhausted health workers in Congo struggle to keep up as Ebola outpaces contact tracing
- NIZI, Congo -- Every day, community health worker Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team fan out across communities in eastern Congo looking for people who may have crossed paths with the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.
- The workers investigate dozens of alerts, search for those exposed to suspected or confirmed cases and try to get anyone showing symptoms into care before the virus spreads further.
- But the surveillance system is increasingly failing to keep pace with the virus.
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- NIZI, Congo -- Every day, community health worker Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team fan out across communities in eastern Congo looking for people who may have crossed paths with the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.
- The workers investigate dozens of alerts, search for those exposed to suspected or confirmed cases and try to get anyone showing symptoms into care before the virus spreads further.
- But the surveillance system is increasingly failing to keep pace with the virus.
Sources: ABC News