# Exhausted Congo health workers struggle as Ebola outpaces contact tracing

https://mins.news/en/item/22941

- The Associated Press, 2026-08-15 12:00 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://bit.ly/4g9wB3X

> In eastern Congo, Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team of community health workers are working tirelessly to track the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, but the disease is spreading faster than contact tracing can keep up.

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