An Ebola victim is loaded on to a truck by a government burial team at a facility in Kailahun in Sierra Leone
Here are the latest photos from the harrowing scenes of families torn apart by the deadly ebola virus in Liberia along with medical workers battling to save the sick as captured by photographer John Moore from Getty Images. Medicial workers in Liberia says response teams are unable to document all the cases erupting as many of the sick are being hidden at home rather than taken to Ebola treatment centres. More pics after cut…
A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus
A sick child lies on a mattress in a former classroom in a primary school, which has been transformed into an Ebola ward
A 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
The ward, in a former primary school, is where people suspected of having the virus are sent by health workers
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
Three-year-old Nino sits in a newly opened Ebola isolation centre set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school
Children sit in the isolation ward as the disease continues to spread in West Africa
Getty Images staff photographer John Moore wears protective clothing, knows as personal protective equipment (PPE), before joining a Liberian burial team set to remove the body of an Ebola victim from her home
Neighbours watch as a son prepares his father to be taken to an Ebola isolation centre yesterday
The facility was constructed to house a surging number of patients diagnosed with Ebola in three west African countries
A son tries to rouse his father in their one-room home (left) before he is taken to an Ebola ward in Liberia; right, a man stands next to the coffin of Dr Modupeh Cole, a doctor from Sierra Leone, who succumbed to the deadly Ebola virus
The team then spray the coffin with disinfectant at the facility set up by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
A man carries a child through the streets near an Ebola isolation ward. Ebola, which causes a high fever, bleeding and vomiting, has no cure and no licensed treatment
A security guard walks atop the roof of an abandoned hotel in Monrovia
Chinese doctors put on protective clothing and masks before starting work at the Harman Road Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Chinese doctors came to the hospital, which had to have an overall disinfection after receiving a patient with Ebola. Right, a doctor works in the ophthalmologist clinic in the King Harman Hospital, which has treated Ebola patients
A soldier from Sierra Leone stands near an Ebola information poster in Kenema district, which is being described as the 'epicentre' of the outbreak
A group of women and children wait outside a health centre in Kandopleu, Ivory Coast near the border with affected Ebola countries Guinea and Liberia
A Liberian burial team stand together in prayer before entering a house in Monrovia to remove the body of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola. After removing the woman's body, the workers then spray each other with disinfectant in a bid to stop the spread of the disease
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
A woman cries as the undertakers, wearing protective clothing go to remove her cousin's body
After her body is placed on a truck and taken away, neighbours and relatives gather around to watch the vehicle depart
Andrew, 14, gets dressed before being taken to an Ebola isolation ward
Residents stand outside the home of a person sick with Ebola in West Point
Fishermen pull a dugout from the water in the impoverished neighbourhood of West Point in Monrovia, Liberia. People in the area suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to a temporary isolation centre
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