Clashes As Liberia Slum Sealed Off To Curb Ebola

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Security forces reportedly fire live rounds at residents protesting at being barricaded into their neighbourhood by barbed wire.</span><br /> <br /> <section class="story__media" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="module module--primary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 660px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 371px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530 1600x900" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/20/330651/default/v1/police-officer-clashes-with-protester-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/20/330651/default/v1/police-officer-clashes-with-protester-1-1600x900.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 371px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 660px;" /></div> <div class="image__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A soldier clashes with a resident in West Point</span></div> </div> </div> </section><div class="story__content-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="share" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 4px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <ul class="share__list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <li class="share__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 16px 16px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 40px;"><a class="share__link js-share" href="https://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2F1322162%2Fclashes-as-liberia-slum-sealed-off-to-curb-ebola" style="background-position: 0px 0px; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Residents vented their fury at the government for isolating their West Point neighbourhood in the Liberian capital Monrovia and said they were given no warning of the blockade which has prevented some 50,000 people from getting to work or buying food.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I don't have any food and we're scared," said Alpha Barry, a resident with four children under the age of 13.</span></div> <div class="image image--inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="91x68 300x225 480x360" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/20/330653/default/v1/taskforce-enforce-quarantine-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/20/330653/default/v1/taskforce-enforce-quarantine-1-480x360.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> <div class="image__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Liberia's ebola task force enforcing the quarantine</span></div> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The coastguard was also in action, patrolling sewage-strewn waters offshore to ensure no one fled the area by sea.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And there was further fury when relatives of Miata Flowers, the local government representative, were escorted away from the slum by security forces.</span></div> <div class="module gallery gallery--4x3" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="gallery__position" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 10px; padding: 405px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 0px; width: 540px; z-index: 99;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="js-gallery-current" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span>/<span class="js-gallery-total" style="box-sizing: border-box;">9</span></span></div> <div class="gallery__container" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 54000px;"> <ol aria-labelledby="gallery__teaser--1320218" class="gallery__list" style="-webkit-transform: translateX(-1%); box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 54000px;"> <li aria-hidden="true" class="gallery__item gallery__item--last" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 540px;"><div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: 405px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 0px; width: 540px;"> <img alt="" class="image__item gallery__image " data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="300x225 480x360 800x600 960x720 1024x768 1600x1200" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329989/default/v1/453701710-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329989/default/v1/453701710-1-300x225.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> </div> <div class="gallery__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 2.688rem; padding: 10px 3.75rem 15px 8px;"> </div> </li> <li class="gallery__item gallery__item--first" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 540px;"><div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: 405px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 0px; width: 540px;"> <img alt="" class="image__item gallery__image js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="300x225 480x360 800x600 960x720 1024x768 1600x1200" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329980/default/v1/453696122-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329980/default/v1/453696122-1-1600x1200.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> </div> <div class="gallery__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 2.688rem; padding: 10px 3.75rem 15px 8px;"> <div class="gallery__teaser" id="gallery__teaser--1320218" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gallery__module-type" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gallery:</span> Mob Raids Ebola Isolation Unit In Liberia</span></div> <div class="gallery__caption" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 100ms; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1.125rem; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 100ms; width: 472px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A mob overruns an Ebola isolation centre in the West Point slum of Monrovia, claiming there is no ebola in the city.</span></div> </div> </li> <li class="gallery__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 540px;"><div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: 405px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 0px; width: 540px;"> <img alt="" class="image__item gallery__image " data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="300x225 480x360 800x600 960x720 1024x768 1600x1200" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329982/default/v1/453696128-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329982/default/v1/453696128-1-300x225.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> </div> <div class="gallery__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 2.688rem; padding: 10px 3.75rem 15px 8px;"> </div> </li> <li class="gallery__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 540px;"><div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: 405px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 0px; width: 540px;"> <img alt="" class="image__item gallery__image " data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="300x225 480x360 800x600 960x720 1024x768 1600x1200" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329983/default/v2/453696142-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329983/default/v2/453696142-1-300x225.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> </div> <div class="gallery__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 2.688rem; padding: 10px 3.75rem 15px 8px;"> </div> </li> <li class="gallery__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 540px;"><div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: 405px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 0px; width: 540px;"> <img alt="" class="image__item gallery__image " data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="300x225 480x360 800x600 960x720 1024x768 1600x1200" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329984/default/v1/453696612-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/17/329984/default/v1/453696612-1-300x225.jpg" style="border: none; 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margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Already one man with dual US-Liberian citizenship has died from Ebola, after becoming sick on a plane from Monrovia to Lagos and exposing as many as seven other people in Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More cases of Ebola moving across borders via air travel are expected, as West Africa faces the largest outbreak of the hemorrhagic virus in history, said Tom Frieden, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The virus spreads by close contact with bodily fluids and has killed 932 people and infected more than 1,700 since March in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Liberia.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It is certainly possible that we could have ill people in the US who develop Ebola after having been exposed elsewhere,” Frieden told a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We are all connected and inevitably there will be travelers, American citizens and others who go from these three countries — or from Lagos if it doesn’t get it under control — and are here with symptoms,” he said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“But we are confident that there will not be a large Ebola outbreak in the US.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is no treatment or vaccine for Ebola, but it can be contained if patients are swiftly isolated and adequate protective measures are used, he said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Healthcare workers treating Ebola patients should wear goggles, face masks, gloves and protective gowns, according to CDC guidelines.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Equipment lacking -</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, Ken Isaacs, vice president of program and government relations at the Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse warned that the world is woefully ill-equipped to handle the spread of Ebola.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It is clear that the disease is uncontained and it is out of control in West Africa,” he told the hearing.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The international response to the disease has been a failure.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Samaritan’s Purse arranged the medical evacuation of US doctor Kent Brantly and days later, missionary Nancy Writebol, from Monrovia to a sophisticated Atlanta hospital.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Both fell ill with Ebola while treating patients in the Liberian capital, and their health is now improving.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“One of the things that I recognized during the evacuation of our staff is that there is only one airplane in the world with one chamber to carry a level-four pathogenic disease victim,” Isaacs said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also said personal protective gear is hard to find in Liberia, and warned of the particular danger of kissing the corpse farewell during funeral rites.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In the hours after death with Ebola, that is when the body is most infectious because the body is loaded with the virus,” he said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Everybody that touches the corpse is another infection.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Traveler cases -</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ebola can cause fever, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding. It has been fatal in about 55 percent of cases during this outbreak.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last month, Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian finance ministry employee who was also a naturalized American citizen, brought the virus to Lagos.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sawyer had traveled to Nigeria from Liberia via Togo’s capital Lome, and was visibly sick upon arrival at the international airport in Lagos on July 20.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He died in quarantine on July 25.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As many as seven people who had close contact with Sawyer have fallen ill with Ebola, Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of them, a nurse, died on Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Frieden said helping West African nations screen passengers who are departing airports could help contain the virus.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Saudi Arabian man who had recently traveled to Sierra Leone and showed Ebola-like symptoms died Wednesday of a heart attack, but authorities in Riyadh did not reveal the results of Ebola tests that were done on the man.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A suspected New York patient tested negative on Wednesday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Benin, which shares a border with Nigeria, said it was running tests on two potential Ebola cases. Both patients are now in isolation, authorities said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ebola first emerged in 1976, and has killed more than 1,500 people since then. Within weeks, the death toll from this outbreak alone is expected to surpass that number.</span></div> </div> </div> </div>

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