Metro Relatives Dump Infected Bodies of Ebola Victims on the Streets as the Disease Ravages West Africa

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In Liberia, Reuters reports, relatives of Ebola victims are defying the government's quarantine orders and are dumping the bodies of dead victims in the streets.

In Nigeria, which recorded its first death from Ebola in late July, authorities in Lagos said eight people who came in contact with the deceased U.S. citizen Patrick Sawyer were showing signs of the deadly disease.

The outbreak was detected in March in the remote forest regions of Guinea, where the death toll is rising. In neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the outbreak is now spreading fastest, authorities deployed troops to quarantine the border areas where 70 percent of cases have been detected.

Those three countries announced a raft of tough measures last week to contain the disease, shutting schools and imposing quarantines on victim's homes, amid fears the incurable virus would overrun healthcare systems in one of the world's poorest regions.

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Source: #ThisDayLive
 

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