Saturday 16 August 2014

Heartbreaking pics from Liberia as country battles spreading Ebola epidermic


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. See the photos after the cut...

 A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus

 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


 woman stands over her husband with her head in her hands, after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward in Liberia

 Workers wearing protective clothing and masks look on as the woman desperately tries to help her husband who has fallen to the ground



 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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