August 17, 2014

29 Ebola Patients Flee Liberian Clinic After It Is Attacked

By Susan Duclos


A quarantine center in Liberia was attacked by armed men causing at least 29 Ebola patients to flee the clinic, sending symptomatic Ebola patients into the general populace. Reported by CBS News, Sky News and many others, these 29 patients were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to the hospital.

"They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled," said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack and whose report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberian, George Williams.

The attack comes just one day after a report of a crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, 'No Ebola in West Point,' drove away a burial team and their police escort that had come to collect the bodies of suspected Ebola victims in a slum in the capital, Reuters reports. The mob then forced open an Ebola isolation ward and took several patients out, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax.

This comes on the heels of Friday's breaking report that Doctors Without Borders warned that the Ebola virus was spreading faster than doctor and authorities could handle.

Talk about making a bad situation worse.