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The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has killed at least 1,700 people and is spreading faster than previous epidemics. Aid workers are striking over pay, slowing the response.
The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has killed at least 1,700 people and is spreading faster than previous epidemics. The response is falling behind partly because aid workers are striking over unpaid wages and poor working conditions, slowing vaccination and treatment efforts.
A 1,700-death toll in a single outbreak is severe. The fact that the response itself is breaking down—workers striking over pay in an active epidemic—shows the system can't handle the scale. This creates a feedback loop: fewer responders means slower containment, which means more cases and deaths, which makes it harder to attract workers back to unsafe, unpaid jobs.
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