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Mead Over of the Center for Global Development said food price inflation and unemployment will not hit everyone the same way.
For example, in rural areas, subsistence farmers grow their own foods for home consumption and are largely protected from the economic fallout. Over says traders will suffer because quarantining keeps them from selling and buying products. The likely result: shortages of salt, vegetables and other common foods.
Over says the urban poor are hit hardest -- and are the most vulnerable to the spread of Ebola.
"Unlike in rural areas where people are not in very close contact," he said, "in the poor slums of Monrovia can the capitals of Guinea and Sierra Leone, people live cheek by jowl. So if an individual is infected in a slum where people live, the infected person is quite likely to infect all those immediately living with them."
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