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"Tens of thousands of people are trapped in a slum in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, after officials put the neighborhood under strict quarantine to prevent the spread of Ebola.\nClashes broke out on Wednesday, as riot police and soldiers attempted to barricade angry residents. Days earlier, locals had raided a holding center for suspected Ebola patients, pulling out mattresses covered in blood, which could spread the disease.\nSee also: 6 Questions About Ebola, Answered\nOn Thursday, officials were handing out food and water to the desperate people inside the quarantine zone, the Associated Press reported.\n\n\nLiberia Quarantine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiberians looked on at the body of a victim of Ebola on a street corner in Monrovia, Liberia. In many places in Liberia, Ebola victims are shunned by their communities and left to die. \n\nImage:  Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeople passed by Ebola warning signs in Monrovia. Residents there recently raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items, including blood-stained sheets and mattresses, raising fears that the virus could soon spread through the capital's largest slum.\n\nImage: Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkers prepared the new Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center on Sunday near Monrovia. The facility has 120 beds, making it the largest such center for Ebola treatment and isolation in history. The organization plans to expand it to a 350-bed capacity.\n\nImage:  John Moore/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNroh Nah listened as local UNICEF health workers spoke about Ebola prevention at her home in New Kru Town, Liberia. UNICEF is going house to house in and around the capital and urging residents to wash their hands to help prevent the spread of the epidemic, which is spread by bodily fluids.\n\nImage:  John Moore/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeople walked past a very sick boy, 10-year-old Saah Exco, in a back alley of the West Point slum in Monrovia. The boy was one of the patients that was pulled out of a holding center for suspected Ebola patients when the facility was overrun by a mob on Saturday. A local clinic Tuesday refused to treat the boy, according to residents, because of the danger of infection.\n\nImage:  John Moore/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChildren surrounded a man suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus who fell down while walking in the city of Monrovia.\n\nImage: Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMattresses looted from the Ebola isolation center floated in a seaside dump in the West Point slum in Monrovia. The mattresses and contaminated medical supplies were looted from the facility after it was overrun by a mob on Saturday.\n\nImage:  John Moore/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Tuesday, an Ebola response official (right) advised the people of West Point tostay calm and cooperate with health officials as they work to curb the deadly Ebola outbreak.  \n\nImage:  Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiberian soldiers deployed to assist nurses retrieved looted items from the MV Massaquoi Elementary school, which was used as the Ebola isolation unit.\n\nImage:  Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiberia security forces patrolled in the West Point area, as the government clamped down on the movement of people to prevent the spread of the virus.\n\nImage: Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiberian security forces, part of the country's Ebola Task Force, enforced the quarantine. The quarantine of West Point, a congested slum of 75,000 people, began Wednesday, as part of the government's efforts to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital city.\n\nImage:  John Moore/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiberian security officers dressed in riot gear controlled a crowd of people in the West Point area.\n\nImage: Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResidents protested their inability to enter the area leading to their homes after Liberia security forces blocked roads in Monrovia.\n\nImage: Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Liberian Army soldier, part of the Ebola Task Force, beat a local resident while enforcing a quarantine on the West Point slum.\n\nImage:  John Moore/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWest Point residents were furious.\n\nImage:  John Moore/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiberia security forces blockaded an area around the West Point Ebola center.\n\nImage: Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA lone man sat outside shops that were closed in Monrovia's West Point slum as part of quarantine measures on Wednesday.\n\nImage:  Zoom Dosso/AFP/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe quarantine is one of many methods being employed by health workers and the Liberian government to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,350 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The current outbreak has now killed more people than the last two dozen combined, and Liberia has the highest concentration of fatalities, at more than 576 deaths. \nEbola is spread through bodily fluids. There is no known cure or vaccine, but an American doctor infected with the disease underwent experimental treatment at Atlanta's Emory Hospital and was released on Thursday.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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