Liberia's supervirus Half of the capital became a "ward", and the dead were cremated into part of the country
In Africa, the most frightening thing is not **, hurricanes or wars, the most terrible is Ebola, a kind of Ebola hemorrhagic fever that can cause infection in all primates, including humans, with symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, systemic hemorrhage, advanced myocardial infarction, shock and other multi-organ dysfunction, and the initial case fatality rate can be as high as 90%.
The natural host of Ebola is still unclear as it was discovered by wildlife such as monkeys, orangutans and wild boars, and its name was created in 1976 when it was discovered on the banks of the Ebola River north of the DRC, and two plagues that claimed a lot of life occurred in the past three years, and then disappeared for a while, until 2013, when there were 24 outbreaks.
But the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was larger than any previous Ebola outbreak combined, especially in Liberia, a country of 4.5 million people, and just two months later, Monrovia was deemed "out of control" and people were carried out of hospitals in white sheets, confirming the existence of a "supervirus".
Monrovia, a seaport in Africa near South America, was once the place where the United States deported black slave immigrants, because of its warm weather, abundant rain, coastline of more than 500 kilometers, and annual throughput of more than 10 million tons, so it is called "the most promising city in West Africa". It's a pity that all happiness ended with the flu outbreak.
Ebola is a new coronavirus that surpasses AIDS and SARS at the life level, and it can be transmitted through various routes such as saliva, ** mucous membranes, and mother-to-child transmission, and its incubation period can reach 21 days. Although it has not been confirmed that Ebola can be transmitted in the air, Monrovia's population of more than 1 million people and 50 doctors is enough to cause a catastrophe.
More than 3,000 people have died from Ebola in West Africa over three months, and almost half of all people have died in Monrovia. Until a new vaccine is developed, quarantine is the only way to ** Ebola, so West Point was chosen.
The West Point Peninsula, which connects Monrovia, used to be the largest slum in Liberia, but due to the lack of proper quarantine equipment and medical workers, Liberia was unable to move infected people to quarantine areas in the interior without allowing the virus to spread, so it had to set aside two quarantine areas and one ** area on half of the capital, which is jokingly called "urban wards" in Western countries.
In short, the suspicious patient is first sent to the first layer of isolation area, and then transferred to the ** area for further observation, and then returned to the safe area through the "green channel" after full recovery. Previously, the World Health Organization reported that at the peak, more than 400,000 people were quarantined.
Before West Point became the world's largest "urban ward," it was inhabited by the poor, and was famous for its 75,000 population with 11 public toilets and 22 taps. When you go to the slums of West Point, almost everyone will have the feeling of "robbery, garbage, and stinking."
What's even more frightening is that only 4 of the 11 public toilets are free and only 3 hours of running water from 22 taps**. Even before the Ebola outbreak, it was already difficult for the poor at West Point to survive, let alone what it would be like when the plague broke out. But if you want to survive, you have to go outside and form a long line, go to the toilet, and fetch water.
Liberia** sent heavily armed soldiers to cordon off the quarantine area, and although some food and food would be distributed to the quarantine area, there would still be some looting and looting. More than 2,200 people had died from Ebola and hundreds more from violent crimes before a U.S. naval medical team arrived.
Their bodies were cremated, and their bones were buried five meters underground. Because of the great ethnic and cultural differences in the quarantine area, some poor people strongly buried their families in this simple way, so the conflict escalated and several riots broke out, but fortunately, United Nations rescuers arrived in time to quell the riots.
Disease outbreaks around the world are always accompanied by rumors, and there are all sorts of rumours circulating in the West Point Quarantine that raw onions, coffee, and condensed milk can wipe out the germ, which has been spread by nearly a hundred in one night, which were later proven to be spread by merchants who hoarded goods. Others say that drinking a few more sips of seawater would alleviate the situation, but two people have already died.
After the American team arrived in Monrovia, the army of 4,000 people blocked the sea and all exits, and more than 600 people were transferred to the quarantine area, and in the end there were less than 100 people left. In addition, 750 people in the United Kingdom were tasked with setting up health facilities, training medical workers, and obtaining protective equipment, medicines and medical technology from the United Nations.
What is ridiculous is that the medical and microbiology experts sent by the United States have been tossing and turning in Liberia for several months, but have not developed any good drugs, but because of large-scale trials, the number of infected people has reached more than 6,000, and more than 200 medical workers have also died, and Canada is the first country to develop this virus.
Ebola was declared in Liberia in January 2016, while the World Health Organization claims that the 90-day observation period has not ended. Sure enough, from 1 to 7 April, three new cases emerged in Liberia in a row, resulting in hundreds of people being quarantined again. There are two reasons, one is that the patients in Guinea are infected with the disease, and the other is that the disease is found in the garbage of North Korea.