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.
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
he 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 hands on her head, 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
A son tries to rouse his father in their one-room home (left) before he is taken to an Ebola ward in Liberia
A woman cries as the undertakers, wearing protective clothing go to remove her cousin's body
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
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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