For fear of the virus spreading, Liberian health workers immured alive a woman and her 12 year old daughter, both sick, until they die. The people fled the village
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The afraid of Ebola transformed Ballajah, Liberia, ghost village, interspersed silent groans of those Sherrif Fatu, 12, cloistered an entire week with the body of his mother, "without food or water," before die in turn.
Haemorrhagic fever destroyed his family says Momoh Wile, the head of the village, about 150 km northeast of Monrovia, near the border with Sierra Leone.
According to the septuagenarian patriarch beard and white hair, the girl led an uneventful life with his father Abdullah Sherrif, 51, his mother Seidia Passawee Sherrif, 43, and his older brother, Barnie, 15.
Until 20 July, when the deadly virus was detected in his family, causing panic among the 500 people who have distanced themselves from the Sherrif and alerted the health authorities.
These slow in coming, the villagers protested by erecting barricades on the road to Sierra Leone. When the team from the Department of Health has finally arrived, the father had passed away for five days, the mother and daughter were sick, only son tested negative Ebola.
The teenager survived seven days near the body of his mother
Health workers have recovered and buried the body of Abdullah, they "asked us not to get close to the woman and her daughter," said Momoh Wile, "they sealed the doors and windows of the house on Women and his daughter. "
Seidia and Fatu "cried day and night, constantly begging people to bring them food but everyone was afraid" to approach the house where they remained "without food or water," he adds.
The mother died on August 3, the girl then remained cloistered with her body and "it's August 10 that health workers came to" recover the remains for burial, said the patriarch, bursting into tears. "There are more than the girl remained, but she was crying."
The interior of the house is invisible from the street, the doors and windows had been caulked.
The moans of the girl tearing occasionally silence in which was now plunged almost deserted village, with narrow streets and rutted trash-strewn. Personal effects avaint been abandoned in a hurry in some homes with doors left open. The young Fatu finally died in the night of Monday to Tuesday. Always alone, without food or water.
"Nobody wants to approach me"
The people who fled were rejected by the people of the surrounding villages, also in the throes of psychosis Ebola still Momoh says Wile. All went into the forest.
As for the brother, Bernie, after testing negative for Ebola, he was prohibited from entering his house, according to the head of the village. Rejected by the people, he took refuge in an abandoned house, dismal.
Sought on this situation, he medical authorities did not want to comment immediately. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has declared August 6 the
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