DR Congo Ebola health workers protest unpaid wages as deaths surpass 1,800

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, health workers are protesting unpaid wages as the country's Ebola outbreak has now killed more than eighteen hundred people. According to Al Jazeera English, aid workers describe the virus as spreading at an alarming and unprecedented rate, reaching remote areas on Thursday. Ebola is a severe, often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever first identified in the region decades ago.

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