Posted on 08/20/2014 9:43:11 AM PDT by Covenantor
Residents riot as police quarantine slum to curb ebola ( Breaking news)
Monrovia - Riots broke out in Monrovia after the government quarantined Liberia's biggest slum in an effort to curb the Ebola epidemic, local newspaper Front Page Africa reported on Wednesday.
Residents clashed with armed security guards and police officers, who had cordoned off the West Point slum, home to an estimated 75 000 residents.
Officers also blocked off the Waterside Market, one of the Liberian capital's key market places, due to its proximity to the slum.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf order the area quarantined after 37 Ebola patients fled an isolation ward at the weekend.
West Point residents had broken into the quarantine centre on Saturday and freed the patients, who were suspected of being infected with the virus.
The president also imposed a curfew between 21:00 and 06:00.
Bodies dumped in streets
This comes after reports of dead bodies being dumped in streets at night, as overburdened authorities struggle to collect corpses.
Johnson Sirleaf also ordered the town of Dolo'S, on Liberia's north coast, be quarantined.
"It has become necessary to impose additional sanctions to curb the spread [of Ebola] overall and particularly in those areas of intensity," said Johnson Sirleaf.
Many Liberians continued to deny the existence of Ebola and disregarded prevention measures, she said.
Liberia has reported 834 Ebola cases, according to the WHO. Of those, 466 have died.
Nigeria's toll from Ebola meanwhile hit five as another death was reported, according to the local newspaper Vanguard, while Liberia imposed a night curfew and quarantined its largest slum.
Nigerian doctor Ameyo Stella Adadevoh contracted the virus while treating Liberian government consultant Patrick Sawyer, the first person to die of Ebola in Nigeria, said Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu.
"[Adadevoh was] one of the primary contacts... the most senior doctor who participated in the management of [Sawyer]," Chukwu added.
Nigeria has reported 15 suspected or confirmed Ebola cases, according to the World Health Organization, while almost 170 further patients were under observation.
In West Africa, 2 240 suspected or confirmed cases and 1 229 deaths have been reported, the WHO reported.
The current outbreak is caused by the most lethal strain in the family of Ebola viruses.
Ebola causes massive haemorrhaging and has a fatality rate of up to 90%. It is transmitted through contact with blood and other body fluids.
There is the possibility of more wide spread anti-government riots.
Riots result as curfew and forced quarantine decreed.
Now, imagine Ferguson with Ebola.
Only make that say....Philadelphia.
75,000 people under quarantine with a DEADLY DISEASE is not good.
I think there may be a couple that won’t want to be there
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The Ferguson residents threw urine at police. Imagine ebola tained urine. Much more clashes between residents and cops in Liberia and the cops might decide they don’t want to become infected. Morons there looted an ebola clinic and ran off with bloody bedsheets. Morons in Ferguson and morons in W Africa. They’re all the same.
Look and learn from this example, in that this is how governments typically behave with an epidemic. Usually late and ineffective, it is still enforced with arms. And while in the US it would be a tidier affair, it would have several of the same elements, that is, late and ineffective.
Yup. Performing precisely as FR Jim Noble informed FR members on one of the Ebola threads.
His past experience in managing Civic Disaster simulations outlined that civic officials ALWAYS made the right decisions too late.
Perhaps Jim will repeat that on this thread or post a more detailed thread on the subject. It has applications under many conditions.
75,000 people under quarantine and...
“Officers also blocked off the Waterside Market, one of the Liberian capital’s key market places, due to its proximity to the slum.”
Cutting off the food supply as well is mighty risky if they can’t supply them with food. Some hard choices will be faced soon by police and troops, both underpaid. Sierra Leone is by far the poorest of the three most heavily hit countries by the new strain of Ebola.
Sierra Leone has a population of just over 6 million.
Scale that 75,000 up to our poulaton but spread it out across the USA.
What’s 1/8 of our population?
Of course that’s not reasonable, but still an indicator of this impact on Sierra Leone.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thanks for the ping!
Urine is the least of their problems. Urine, is sterile.
Feces...vomit, mucus, blood...those are the real dangerous things. And from what I’ve read those fluids are pretty well sprayed all over the room of a dying patient.
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