Photo Gallery A Growing Epidemic
The Ebola epidemic is continuing to worsen in West Africa even as the international community is finally recognizing that extensive help is needed. Here, a sign in Monrovia educating people about the disease's symptoms.
A nurse in an Ebola center in Harare, Zimbabwe on Tuesday. The American Centers for Disease Control warned this week that over a million people could ultimately end up contracting the disease.
Liberian nurses carrying a body suspected of dying from Ebola on the outskirts of Monrovia. The Belgian virologist Peter Piot, one of the discoverers of the virus 38 years ago, says that "we urgently need to come up with new strategies" to fight the virus.
A health worker sprays disinfectant around the area where a man, suspected of suffering from the disease, sits before he is loaded into an ambulance in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The disease is extremely deadly if contracted. This image, taken on Wednesday, shows the sandles of a suspected Ebola patient after being cordoned off with stones by locals in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Ebola Is Real. This sign was posted in front of a home in the West Point slum of Monrovia. Almost 3,000 people in West Africa have already died in the current outbreak of the disease.
A medical worker with Doctors Without Borders throwing contaminated items into an incineration pit in Kailahun, Sierra Leone.
Keeping Ebola patients isolated is essential to prevent the disease from spreading. Here, workers build an isolation station and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia on Thursday.
Earlier this month, Sierra Leone held a controversial three-day curfew in an attempt to slow the spread of the disease. This man is sitting on an empty street in Freetown as the curfew began on Sept. 19.
A burial team from the Liberian Ministry of Health loads the bodies of Ebola victims onto a funeral pyre in August.
Medical care and supplies are essential to combat the epidemic, says Belgian virologist Peter Piot, who helped discover the Ebola virus almost four decades ago. But foodstuffs also important. Here, people wait for World Food Program distrubutions in the West Point slum in Monrovia.
The international community is beginning to respond to the epidemic. Here, a cargo plane at the Cologne airport is loaded with supplies bound for West Africa.
