The massive effort to get control of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the most devastating in history with more than 1,350 dead to date, has taken some bizarre turns in Liberia. The countrys government on Tuesday quarantined a slum in Monrovia, the capital, provoking clashes there between angry residents and authorities. The countrys public health officials had already been reduced to rounding up patients that angry mobs liberated from an isolation facility last weekend, imposing a nationwide curfew of 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., and fighting the pernicious rumor that the hemorrhagic fever still raging through West Africa is a hoax. (Related: Q&A: American Virus Expert in Africas Ebola Zone: This is Like War) The situation in Liberia has been described by an experienced member of one response team as being in free fall, while Doctors Without Borders said the situation in Monrovia is catastrophic. Liberia now has more cases and more deaths than any other country, with 576 patients dead, compared to 396 in Guinea and 374 in Sierra Leone. Dozens of health care workers in the country have been infected with the virus. (Related: Successful Marburg Virus Treatment Offers Hope for Ebola Patients.) democraticunderground/112773969
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:54:43 +0000
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