Photos: Documenting the Horrific Battle Against Ebola

A health care worker from the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit places a suspected Ebola patient inside a makeshift ambulance in village in Bong County, Liberia. The process is slow and tedious because the ambulance can only hold one patient at a time and has to travel hours to the nearest Ebola treatment unit.

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An ambulance team from the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit removes personal protective gear after transporting suspected Ebola patients from their village into the ambulance. The protective equipment is stored in trash bags and burned.

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Cephus, 18, sits and waits for an ambulance team to take him to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit. He has already walked for two hours and it will be another four before he reaches the unit.

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Cephus, 18, inside a makeshift ambulance en route to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit. The four-hour drive through rocky terrain is the closest treatment unit in the area.

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The gated entrance to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit, the only one of its kind within a four-hour radius. It sits at the top of a hill above an old leper colony and is run by the International Medical Corps with the help of USAID.

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Photos: Documenting the Horrific Battle Against Ebola

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