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A red rope guarded by police marks the "quarantine line" around the West Point slum in the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

Beyond it, more than 70,000 people are trapped angry, scared and increasingly hungry as authorities seek to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
Since the government designated the slum an Ebola quarantine zone last week there has been no way out. Stuck without sanitation or running water, and with food supplies for many running low, people fear for their lives. The quarantine measures were imposed after rioters looted an Ebola treatment center in the slum, claiming the virus was a government hoax.

The center is slowly being rebuilt but it lacks basic equipment and facilities. Medical workers have to wash their protective gear for reuse and have little more than a squirt of bleach to rely on. It is the only refuge for the slum's frightened residents. But the most that they can hope for is to be made comfortable while they wait either to o