Report: Armed men attack Liberia Ebola clinic, freeing patients

CBS News ^ | 08/17/2014

[SeekAndFind]

MONROVIA, Liberia - Armed men attacked an Ebola clinic in Monrovia, local witnesses told Agence France Presse.

As many as 29 potentially Ebola-infected patients fled, the news agency reported.

"They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled," said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack and whose report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberian, George Williams.

The attack comes just one day after a report of a crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, 'No Ebola in West Point,' drove away a burial team and their police escort that had come to collect the bodies of suspected Ebola victims in a slum in the capital, Reuters reports. The mob then forced open an Ebola isolation ward and took several patients out, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax.

[grania]

This was a concern I expressed when those doctors who left Africa were given a vaccine. It caused suspicions in Africa that people who had Ebola were being sent to clinics where they'd not be given full treatment and they'd be allowed to die.

Meanwhile, foreign workers are leaving, without training local workers and population how to care for themselves.

It's not hard to understand why these people are in a state of panic and total distrust of the care they're getting.

[riri]

They should probably loot some stores and get some TVs before they start bleeding from their eyeballs.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Saint Darwin may be delayed, but he will not be denied.

Natural selection targets the stupid. This is why plagues tend to kill “from the bottom up”, taking out the sickly, the weak, the fools, the lazy, the looters and other scoundrels, and the other people, many good, who make bad gambles without even knowing it.

[logic101.net]

Is there a group which would like to see this plague spreading?

Yes, they are called “liberals” in this country. Never let a good crisis go to waste....

[Veto!]

I worked in Africa for many years. Long enough to see the character of educated and common and simply ignorant people. They share a common chip on their shoulders with their kin here. They are downright cruel to one another, resentful, filthy, ruthless, dishonest, quarreling, conniving, licentious and often unjustifiably carefree. If they put one half the effort into honest work that they do into failed scams things would be a lot better.

Thanks for this remarkable post. It sheds light in many directions. If Ebola spreads to the US…I don't want to think what they might do.

[Sequoyah101]

I watched the fuel run out on the engines of the chillers on containers full of AIDS medicines sitting on the docks because it would not be released without bribes. The medicine was ruined. I never knew what happened to it.

I watched fight on the street every day outside my office window. The arguments were child like.

I saw people in public housing thrown out on the streets so the buildings could be razed so the powers-that-be could build expensive apartments and offices.