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EBOLA DISEASE: Heartbreaking Photos From Liberia

Monday, August 18, 2014

As Liberia keeps battling the scourge of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) , heartbreaking photos have emerged, which display a horrible state at which the country is.
According to the World Health Organization, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths have been reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 13th and 14th of August, 2014.

Getty Images photographer, John Moore has however took his time to travel to Monrovia, Liberia, to chronicle harrowing scenes in the country which is in the grip of the deadly Ebola disease. Liberia is the second most affected country after Guinea where this recent outbreak started from.

View the heartbreaking photos below:
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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.

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

the ward, in a former primary school, is where people suspected of having the virus are sent by health workers

A ward, in a former primary school, is where people suspected of having the virus are sent by health workers

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 Continue reading

It would be recalled that Nigeria had a clean record of the Ebola Virus Disease not until the Liberian-American named Patrick Sawyer brought it into the country, an act in which the Nigerian President called madness.