{"id":4145,"date":"2015-01-06T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2015-01-06T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:15:57","slug":"ebola-outbreak-quarantine-just-like-a-jail-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4145","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak: Quarantine &#8216;just like a jail&#8217; in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/ebola-outbreak-quarantine-just-like-a-jail-in-sierra-leone-1.2890487\" target=\"_blank\">Ebola outbreak: Quarantine &#8216;just like a jail&#8217; in Sierra Leone<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>For 18 days,\u00a0Alieru Deen\u00a0Bangura\u2019s family has been quarantined in a slum in Sierra Leone&#8217;s capital of\u00a0Freetown.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the West African city&#8217;s efforts to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the family lives under the watchful eye of armed guards 24\u00a0hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen families are cordoned off with a thin, orange, plastic rope,\u00a0a\u00a0constant reminder that they are not free to go about their daily business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would\u00a0say it\u2019s just like a jail for someone to be sitting down the whole day,\u201d\u00a0Bangurasays.<\/p>\n<p>From behind the plastic rope, he is mourning his brother\u2019s death\u00a0from Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>So far, none of the rest of the family has shown signs of illness.\u00a0But\u00a0their\u00a0conditions are wearing on them.<\/p>\n<p>Food and water, which are supposed to be delivered daily,\u00a0are sometimes late and often\u00a0not enough, Bangura says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebola outbreak: Quarantine &#8216;just like a jail&#8217; in Sierra Leone For 18 days,\u00a0Alieru Deen\u00a0Bangura\u2019s family has been quarantined in a slum in Sierra Leone&#8217;s capital of\u00a0Freetown. As part of the West African city&#8217;s efforts to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the family lives under the watchful eye of armed guards 24\u00a0hours a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,232,944],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}