Freetown's slums ill-prepared for Ebola spread

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Freetown's slums ill-prepared for Ebola spread

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/freetowns-slums-ill-prepared-ebola-spread-025026981.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wgkbbRUZaHUyacRStrSHtA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/944250fb4810c282f774ee8bfcc1730e68d45b19.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A local resident is seen in Kroo Bay slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on August 13, 2014" align="left" title="A local resident is seen in Kroo Bay slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on August 13, 2014" border="0" /></a>From a hillside rising high above the fetid orange sludge of Freetown's largest slum, it is hard to imagine a place more ill-equipped to deal with an outbreak of Ebola. Kroo Bay -- a cramped beachfront township of 15,000 where disease is rife and most people die before middle age -- is emblematic of the threat facing Sierra Leone's capital. We have many problems in this community, even without Ebola,&quot; says father-of-six Hassan Sesay, 38, a lifelong resident. Freetown, an overcrowded city of 1.2 million people, has so far avoided catastrophe, with most of Sierra Leone's 783 cases cropping up in the remote forests of the east.</p><br clear="all"/>

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