Bodies dumped in streets as West Africa struggles to curb Ebola

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Bodies dumped in streets as West Africa struggles to curb Ebola

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bodies-dumped-streets-west-africa-struggles-curb-ebola-164345648--finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wjzIn.5K5aUXl_HPvU9b6w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-05T174305Z_1_LYNXMPEA740TZ_RTROPTP_2_HEALH-EBOLA-AFRICA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices, into a grave in Kailahun" align="left" title="Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices, into a grave in Kailahun" border="0" /></a>Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia defied government quarantine orders and dumped infected bodies in the streets as West African governments struggled to enforce tough measures to curb an outbreak of the virus that has killed 887 people. In Nigeria, which recorded its first death from Ebola in late July, authorities in Lagos said eight people who came in contact with the deceased U.S. citizen Patrick Sawyer were showing signs of the deadly disease. In neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the outbreak is now spreading fastest, authorities deployed troops to quarantine the border areas where 70 percent of cases have been detected. In Liberia's ramshackle ocean-front capital Monrovia, still scarred by a 1989-2003 civil war, relatives of Ebola victims were dragging bodies onto the dirt streets rather than face quarantine, officials said.</p><br clear="all"/>

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