Ebola outbreak: Quarantine 'just like a jail' in Sierra Leone

Door-to-door community campaigns seen as key to educating Freetown residents

CBC NEWS               by Carolyn Dunn                                                                           Jan. 6, 2015                    

FREETOWN --For 18 days, Alieru Deen Bangura’s family has been quarantined in a slum in Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown.

As part of the West African city's efforts to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the family lives under the watchful eye of armed guards 24 hours a day.   

Members of the Bangura family are quarantined after a family member died of Ebola. Seventeen families are living under armed guard behind a rope cordoning them off from their community. (Carolyn Dunn/CBC News )

Seventeen families are cordoned off with a thin, orange, plastic rope, a constant reminder that they are not free to go about their daily business.

“I would say it’s just like a jail for someone to be sitting down the whole day,” Bangura says.

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