GOLD EBOLA GOAL : DRC POVERTY PRECIS

MONGBWALU - DRC : Workers continue mining amid climbing death toll in epicenter of outbreak.

GOLD drives spread of Ebola : After the local Islamic State affiliate attacked his farm, Mumbere Saidi fled to the gold mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeast, trekking 200 miles across one of Africa's most dangerous war zones.

He found backbreaking work in a remote mining town where he panned for gold. When times were good, Mr. Saidi, 27, sent a few dollars back to the parents he left behind.

When they were bad, he struggled to feed his wife and baby daughter. At least he felt safe, until very recently, when an invisible enemy struck Mr. Saidi inside his home.

'' The disease got him,'' said his brother, Kundu Ganda, also a miner, using a common euphemism for Ebola in a town where many avoid the word.

!WOW! thanks Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi.