Umu Fambulle tries to help her husband, Ibrahim, after he fell and was
knocked unconscious in an Ebola ward on Aug. 15 in Monrovia, Liberia.
People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being sent by health
workers to the centre, a closed primary school originally built by
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A burial team from the Liberian Health Department sprays disinfectant
over the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on Aug.
14 in Monrovia. Teams are picking up bodies from all over the capital of
Monrovia, where the spread of the Ebola virus has been called
catastrophic.
A UN convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on
a street in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Aug. 14. The world's worst outbreak
of Ebola has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and there are
about 2,000 probable and suspected cases, the vast majority in Guinea,
Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization
A Nigerian port health official uses a thermometer to scan workers entering the international airport in Lagos, Nigeria.
Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices
to ensure it does not pose a health risk to others and stop the chain of
person-to-person transmission of Ebola, into a grave in Kailahun,
Sierra Leone, on Aug. 2. Hundreds of troops were deployed in Sierra
Leone and Liberia to quarantine communities hit by the deadly Ebola
virus.
A South Korean quarantine officer checks the body temperature of a
passenger against possible infections of the Ebola virus at Incheon
International Airport in South Korea on Aug. 8. South Korea has been
stepping up monitoring of its citizens returning from trips to West
Africa and other areas affected by the virus
- Aid workers and doctors transfer Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest who
was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia, from a plane
to an ambulance as he leaves the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase,
near Madrid, on Aug. 7.
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