In Liberia's capital, fear of Ebola hampers official response


  • World
  • Monday, 04 Aug 2014

A Samaritan's Purse medical personnel demonstrates personal protective equipment to educate volunteers on the Ebola virus in Liberia, in this undated handout photo courtesy of Samaritan's Purse. REUTERS/Samaritan's Purse/Handout via Reuters

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Health workers turned up in Monrovia's Clara Town district on Sunday to remove two bodies of possible victims of the Ebola virus, four days after they dropped dead there when nobody would take them to hospital.

At a swampy field elsewhere in the Liberian capital, the health ministry ordered 100 graves to be dug for victims of the deadly tropical virus, but only five shallow holes partly filled with water had been prepared by Saturday evening.

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