Heartbreaking pics from Liberia as country battles spreading Ebola epidermic
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| A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus |
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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 |
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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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| 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 |
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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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| Doctor attending to a patient with Ebola symptoms. |
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| An Ebola victim is loaded on to a truck by a government burial team |
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| Three-year-old Nino sits in a newly opened Ebola isolation centre set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school |
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| Other children at the Isolation centre |
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| A woman cries as the undertakers, wearing protective clothing go to remove her cousin's body |
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| After her body is placed on a truck and taken away, neighbours and relatives gather around to watch the vehicle depart |
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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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| A man stands next to the coffin of Dr Modupeh Cole, a doctor from Sierra Leone, who succumbed to the deadly Ebola virus |
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| A security guard walks atop the roof of an abandoned hotel in Monrovia |
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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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