Inside the gold-mining town where the Ebola outbreak likely started

npr.org·Emmet Livingstone·2026-06-24T09:00:00.000Z
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Humanitarian Reporting

This article documents human rights concerns or humanitarian issues using credible institutional sources. It is not considered a psychological operation.

This article is not considered a psychological operation. It reports on the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing on the town of Mongbwalu as an epicenter of the crisis, where early mysterious deaths marked by bleeding were later identified as Ebola. The article highlights local conditions, including poverty among gold miners, initial confusion over the cause of illness, and the spread of the virus across regions and into neighboring Uganda, while depicting the human toll through images and stories of mourning and burial.

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