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| Patients in the Ebola isolation centre are forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor after being sent to the facility suspected of having the disease |
Getty Images photographer John Moore traveled to Monrovia,
Liberia, risking his own life to chronicle harrowing scenes in the country
which is in the grip of the deadly Ebola disease. The death toll from Ebola has
now reached 1,069 and Liberia is the second most affected country after Guinea
where this recent outbreak started from.
The pictures speak in volumes. So sad
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he ward, in a former primary school, is where people suspected of having the virus are sent by health workers
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| Workers wearing protective clothing and masks look on as the woman desperately tries to help her husband who has fallen to the ground |
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A son tries to rouse his father in their one-room home (left) before he is taken to an Ebola ward in Liberia
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| Relatives and neighbours of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola watch on as a Liberian burial team prepare to enter her home to remove her body |
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| The man who took the photos. Getty Images staff photographer John Moore wears protective clothing before joining a Liberian burial team set to remove the body of an Ebola victim from her home |
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