Liberia quarantine creates 'plague villages' at Ebola epicentre

Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

With few food and medical supplies getting in, remote Liberia villages at the epicentre of the eobla virus evoke "plague villages" of medieval Europe. Many of those abandoned face a stark choice: stay where they are and risk death or skip quarantine, spreading the infection further in a country ill-equipped to cope.

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