Angry, scared and hungry: Inside the Ebola ‘quarantine zone’

Tuesday, August 26, 2014
By Paul Martin

MyFox8.com
August 26, 2014

MONROVIA, Liberia — A red rope guarded by police marks the “quarantine line” around the West Point slum in the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

Beyond it, more than 70,000 people are trapped — angry, scared and increasingly hungry — as authorities seek to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

As soon as a CNN team crossed the line, it was swarmed by people desperate to be heard.

Since the government designated the slum an Ebola quarantine zone last week, there has been no way out. Stuck without sanitation or running water, and with food supplies for many running low, people fear for their lives.

The quarantine measures were imposed after rioters looted an Ebola treatment center in the slum, claiming the virus was a government hoax.

A nurse at the center told CNN she arrived for her shift that night to find the center destroyed and not a patient to be found.

The center is slowly being rebuilt, but it lacks basic equipment and facilities. Medical workers have to wash their protective gear for reuse and have little more than a squirt of bleach to rely on.

‘I’m scared of everything’

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