Raid sparks new Ebola fears as patients flee, bloody sheets stolen

[Ptarmigan]

Raid sparks new Ebola fears as patients flee, bloody sheets stolen
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/08/17/raid_sparks_new_ebola_fears_as_patients_flee_bloody_sheets_stolen.html

MONROVIA, LIBERIA—Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital’s largest slum after residents raided a quarantine centre for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.

The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought to the holding centre from other parts of Monrovia, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday.

Up to 30 patients were staying at the centre and many of them fled at the time of the raid, said Nyenswah. Once they are located they will be transferred to the Ebola centre at Monrovia’s largest hospital, he said.

That is really stupid. Go raid a clinic and take bloodied mattresses and bedding, which likely has Ebola. They will probably get sick and bleed out.

[Ptarmigan]

Shoot-on-sight order in Ebola-wary Liberia
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/africa/2014/08/18/shoot-on-sight-order-in-ebola-wary-liberia.html

Liberia's armed forces have reportedly been given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighbouring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of Ebola.

Soldiers stationed in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties, which border Sierra Leone, were to 'shoot on sight' any person trying to cross the border, said deputy chief of staff, Colonel Eric Dennis, according to local newspaper the Daily Observer.

The order comes after border officials reported people continued to cross the porous border illegally.

Liberia has now instituted a shoot on sight policy on the border to stop the spread of Ebola.