A Look Inside a Slum Cut Off by the Ebola Outbreak

Author(s)
Besser, R.
Publication language
English
Date published
27 Aug 2014
Publisher
ABC News
Type
Articles
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Urban
Countries
Liberia

The streets outside West Point are empty of pedestrians. Shops normally bustling with activity are boarded up. This poor community in the capital of Liberia, one of four West African countries affected by the worst-ever Ebola outbreak, has been quarantined – barricaded off from the rest of the region by barbed wire fences patrolled by police and military personnel.