Photos: The Ebola crisis in Liberia
A Doctors Without Borders health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola at a treatment center in Paynesville, Liberia. The girl and her mother, showing symptoms of the deadly disease, were awaiting test results on Oct. 5. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A member of the U.S. Air Force pauses to re-hydrate while setting up a 25-bed hospital to aid Liberian health workers infected with Ebola near Monrovia on Oct. 8. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A worker washes up at a construction site in Monrovia. Liberia is the worst hit of the West African nations at the center of the epidemic, which has already killed 3,439 people, of these, 2,069 in Liberia, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization. (Pascal Guyot / AFP/Getty Images)
Mercy Kennedy, 9, cries outside her Monrovia home after her mother was taken away to an Ebola ward in Liberia. Neighbors wailed Oct. 2 upon learning that Mercy’s mother had died; she was among the cluster of cases that includes Thomas Eric Duncan, who died after being hospitalized in Texas. (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)
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Grave diggers prepare for new Ebola victims outside a treatment center near Gbarnga, in Bong County in central Liberia. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A woman lies down while waiting to enter an Ebola treatment center on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. She said she was bleeding heavily from a miscarriage and was unable to get treatment at other clinics, many of which now refuse to treat bleeding patients because of Ebola fears. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A Doctors Without Borders staff member, background, washes his hands in chlorinated water as sanitized boots dry at a treatment center in Paynesville, Liberia. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Residents line up before dawn to get family and home disinfection kits distributed by Doctors Without Borders in New Kru Town, Liberia. (John Moore / Getty Images)
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Residents of the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, watch an ambulance team disinfect a room while picking up six suspected Ebola sufferers. (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)
Residents in protective suits take a man suspected of having Ebola to the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia. (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)
World Health Organization instructors watch as health workers in protective suits take part in a training session in Monrovia, Liberia. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Matua Fallah waits to receive a ration of rice at a makeshift distribution center in Dolo Town, Liberia, in August. (John Moore / Getty Images)
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Relatives of a local government official are escorted from the West Point slum of Monrovia, Liberia, in August after unrest erupted in response to a government quarantine. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Saah Exco, 10, lies in a back alley of Monrovia’s West Point slum in August. The boy was one of the patients pulled out of a holding center for suspected Ebola patients when the facility was overrun by a mob. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A resident looks from behind a gate during the Liberian government’s 11-day Ebola quarantine in the West Point district of Monrovia.
(John Moore / Getty Images)Residents of Monrovia’s West Point slum wait for a food aid distribution during the government-imposed quarantine there. (John Moore / Getty Images)
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A burial team from the Liberian Ministry of Health unloads the bodies of Ebola victims onto a funeral pyre at a crematorium in the town of Marshall. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Residents in New Kru Town, Liberia, complain they have not received enough disinfection kits being distributed by the aid group Doctors Without Borders. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Liberians in New Kru Town wait before dawn for disinfection kits being distributed by Doctors Without Borders. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A woman carries a disinfection kit distributed by Doctors Without Borders in New Kru Town. (John Moore / Getty Images)
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Residents walk home with disinfection kits distributed in New Kru Town. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Sanitized gloves and boots hang to dry at a Liberian Ministry of Health center for cremation in Monrovia. (John Moore / Getty Images)
An Ebola awareness mural is displayed in Monrovia.
(John Moore / Getty Images)A Liberian Ministry of Health worker speaks to Banu, 4, in a holding center for suspected Ebola patients at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia. (John Moore / Getty Images)
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U.S. Air Force personnel offload a mobile command center from a transport plane outside Monrovia to assist Liberia’s Ebola response. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A man walks past the residence in Monrovia, Liberia, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, had rented a room. (John Moore / Getty Images)