Riot police called to Liberia Ebola protest

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH

MONROVA, Liberia (AP) — Riot police raced to central Liberia on Saturday to put down a demonstration by crowds who had blocked the country's busiest highway to protest the government's delay in collecting bodies of Ebola victims.

The mounting unease in Liberia, where nearly 300 people already have died from the gruesome disease, raises the specter of social unrest amid growing fear and frustration.

Several bodies had been lying by the roadside for two days in the town of Weala, about 50 miles (75 kilometers) from the capital, Monrovia, residents said.

The Ebola virus spreads through the bodily fluids of its victims and many have fallen ill after touching or handling corpses. Liberia's government has ordered that all Ebola victims should be cremated amid community opposition to neighborhood burials for fear of further contamination.

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A man's temperature is measured before he is allowed into a business center, as fear of the deadly Ebola virus spreads through the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)


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[dembotoz]

1. with the crowd on this one--body removal must be a very high priority

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. And yet, the Gov. there is not doing that.

and people are still flying off to other places.

One would almost think they WANT it to spread.
Why would that be, I wonder.

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R!