Soldiers spill blood in Liberian Ebola slum as riot breaks out over the quarantine of 50,000 residents
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A Liberian boy reels with pain after apparently being shot during clashes with Liberian security forces in the West Point area of Monrovia which has been placed into quarantine by order of the country's president
A Liberian Army soldier, part of the Ebola Task Force, swings his truncheon at a fleeing woman
Residents try to get away from a soldier who looks ready to start firing his rifle into the air at West Point
A soldier prepares to swing at a youth as others are pushed back by security forces enforcing the quarantine
The youngster tries to dodge as the soldier swings his club during the crackdown on slum residents
West Point Commissioner Miata Flowers is escorted out of the slum by members of Liberia's Ebola Task Force
Some relatives of Mrs Flowers are led away from the slum, which has been sealed off by soldiers and police
Trapped: Liberian security forces blockade an area around the West Point slum as the government clamps down on the movement of people to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in the city of Monrovia
Lockdown: Liberian soldiers walk through the West Point slum in Monrovia, the 50,000 residents of which were last night quarantined by order the country's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, to contain the spread of Ebola
Anger: These soldiers were deployed yesterday to help medics find and retrieve items looted from the MV Massaquoi Elementary school that was used as an Ebola isolation unit it was attacked on Saturday
Liberian nurses retrieve a looted generator stolen from the M V Massaquoi Elementary school isolation unit
Rubbish litters the waterfront of the West Point slum: The area's high population density and poor sanitation have made it the ideal breeding ground for the Ebola virus outbreak which is currently gripping West Africa
Children do their chores along the beach at West Point: West Africa's Ebola outbreak has killed at least 1,229 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, and more than 2,240 have been infected, says the WHO
Infection control: A Liberian medical worker disinfects a looted mattress taken from the MV Massaquoi Elementary school isolation unit, which could have harboured and spread the Ebola virus
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'LOCAL HERBALIST TO BLAME FOR EBOLA SPREAD TO SIERRA LEONE'
West Africa's Ebola outbreak need never have spread from Guinea, but for a herbalist in a remote village in Sierra Leone who claimed she had powers to treat the virus, an official in her country said.
'She was claiming to have powers to heal Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment,' Mohamed Vandi, the top medical official in the hard-hit district of Kenema, told AFP.
'She got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected.'
Ebola has killed more than 1,220 people since it emerged in southern Guinea at the start of the year, spreading first to Liberia and cutting a gruesome and gory swathe through eastern Sierra Leone since May.
The virus is highly infectious through exposure to bodily fluids, and its early rapid spread in west Africa was attributed in part to relatives touching victims during traditional funeral rites.
The herbalist's mourners fanned out across the rolling hills of the Kissi tribal chiefdoms, starting a chain reaction of infections, deaths, funerals and more infections.
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