Mobile gold miners in eastern Congo complicate health workers' efforts to contain Ebola
- IGA-BARRIÈRE, Congo -- Isaac Batisa spends his days digging for gold at a mining site in eastern Congo, hoping to earn enough money to support his family.
- He is among hundreds of people, many of them children, working at the artisanal gold mine in eastern Congo's Ituri province, where the country's fast-moving Ebola outbreak is concentrated.
- For the 11-year-old Batisa, though, his immediate concern is not the disease which has killed more than 2,300 people among at least 5,000 cases.
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- IGA-BARRIÈRE, Congo -- Isaac Batisa spends his days digging for gold at a mining site in eastern Congo, hoping to earn enough money to support his family.
- He is among hundreds of people, many of them children, working at the artisanal gold mine in eastern Congo's Ituri province, where the country's fast-moving Ebola outbreak is concentrated.
- For the 11-year-old Batisa, though, his immediate concern is not the disease which has killed more than 2,300 people among at least 5,000 cases.
Sources: ABC News