In eastern Congo’s Ituri province, children as young as 11 are risking their lives mining gold to survive, while a deadly Ebola outbreak surges through remote, unregulated sites. With no vaccines or treatments, and miners constantly moving between villages, containment is nearly impossible. For families like Isaac Batisa’s—whose parents were killed in violence—mining is the only lifeline. As roads are blocked and armed groups roam, health workers scramble to stop the virus before it reaches the mines, but the odds are grim.

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