Photos: Ebola Patient Flees Clinic In Search For Food

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A shocking video has emerged which shows the moment an Ebola patient who escaped quarantine in search of food was recaptured and forced into the back of a truck. The footage, broadcast by Sky News, was captured in Monrovia, Liberia, in West Africa, which is currently in the grip of an Ebola epidemic.

The man had escaped from Monrovia's Elwa hospital, (which last month was so crowded with cases of the deadly disease that it had to turn people away), to visit a market. He was wearing a red shirt and a wristband that told people he has tested positive for Ebola. There were chaotic scenes as crowds followed the infected man, and some stallholders argued with him as he approached them. 
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Watch onlookers cheer when health workers finally arrive in their protective outfits and try to convince the patient to quietly give himself up. The man, who showed no outward signs of the diarrhoea and bleeding that the virus causes, refused to return with the health workers and they eventually, roughly grab him, bundle him into a waiting ambulance and carry him away .

 These are screenshots I made from the video. One woman at the scene said: 

"The patients are hungry, they are starving. No food, no water. The government needs to do more. Let Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [the President of Liberia] do more."

At least 1,552 people have been killed by the current ebola outbreak, with 3,062 patients infected overall, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization. The UN agency has warned that more than 20,000 people could be infected with ebola before the outbreak comes to an end.