Struggling Liberia creates "plague villages" in Ebola epicentre

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Struggling Liberia creates "plague villages" in Ebola epicentre

By Eric Telmor and Emma Farge BOYA Liberia/DAKAR (Reuters) - To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicentre of the virus, evoking the "plague villages" of medieval Europe that were shut off from the outside world. With few food and medical supplies getting in, many abandoned villagers 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. In Boya, in northern Liberia's Lofa County, Joseph Gbembo, who caught Ebola and survived, says he is struggling to raise 10 children under five years old and support five widows after nine members of his family were killed by the virus. "Nobody will talk to me and people run away from me." He says he has received no food or health care for the children and no help from government officials.

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