EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how Firestone forces families of dead Ebola victims to leave their homes

UK Daily Mail ^ | 07:38 EST, 21 November 2014 | Updated: 07:44 EST, 21 November 2014 Read more: http://www.dailymail | Gethin Chamberlain In Monrovia For Mailonline

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EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how American tyre giant Firestone forces families of dead Ebola victims to leave their homes on Liberian plantation

• Children who lived with Ebola-victim parents are thrown off plantation

• Now 57 have died on giant factory-plant near Ebola hotspot Monrovia

• Tyre-maker is one of world's biggest and pays its workers $5 a day

• Relatives of the dead get $1,900 and a bag of rice but no pension

• But Firestone say they have treated families well: 'We are in this together'

  "Tyre giant Firestone has ordered the children of workers who died from Ebola to leave their homes on its plantation in Liberia.

  The company - part of the Bridgestone group which last week announced sales for the first nine months of the year totaling £14.5 billion - has told the families they cannot stay on in worker housing and will not get pensions.

  At least 57 people have died on Firestone's giant plantation near the national capital Monrovia since the start of the outbreak in March.

  The dead include nine workers, plus family members and people living around the edges of the site who sought treatment at the company's medical facility.

  Family of workers who died are entitled to a one-off payment of $1,900 [£1,200] and a bag of rice.

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Does anybody really think they caught the virus from the rubber or the tires?

I hope not.