John Moore (pictured inset in protective clothing), who works
for Getty Images, travelled to Monrovia, which is in the grip of the
deadly disease. Both Doctors Without Borders and Plan International say
that the virus is spreading faster than efforts to control it,
predicting the epidemic could last another six months. It comes as the
death toll from the condition has now climbed to 1,069. In Liberia, a
school (left) has become both a morgue and an isolation ward, where
desperate relatives are bringing people stricken by the virus. Pictured
centre, a boy tries to rouse his father in their one-room home before he
is taken to an Ebola ward. Pictured right, fishermen pull a dugout from
the water in the impoverished neighbourhood of West Point. People in
the area suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by
health workers to a temporary isolation centre.
