An empty World Health Organisation (WHO) office with a map of Sierra Leone pasted on the wall in Freetown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three day lockdown from 19 September in an attem...

Emergency health workers take woman suspected of being infected with Ebola to the hospital. Emergency health services took hours to assist the woman and bring her to the hospital. The Sierra Leone gov...

A group of volunteers speaks to locals, informing them about Ebola in a community in downtown Freetown , during the first day of the National lockdown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a thr...

A group of volunteers speaks to locals, informing them about Ebola in a community in downtown Freetown , during the first day of the National lockdown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a thr...

The newly appointed Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr. Abu Bakarr Sulaiman Fofanah (center) talks to a resident during a house to house campaign. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three...

People gather in the street to listen to a group of volunteers speaking about the dangers of Ebola in a community in downtown Freetown , during the first day of the National lockdown. The Sierra Leo...

A burial team removes from a house the body of a suspected Ebola victim. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three day lockdown from 19 September in an attempt to prevent the further spread of...

Dogs and pigs rummage around near graves and garbage in the King Tomb cemetery in Freetown on the third day of the national lockdown imposed by the government. The cemetery lies next to Kolleh Town, a...

Volunteers meet to receive instructions at a health centre in the Kroo Bay slum area. People have been instructed to listen to police and volunteer workers who will pass through the slum, telling peop...

A group of volunteers speaks to locals, informing them about Ebola in a community in downtown Freetown , during the first day of the National lockdown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a thr...

People listen from an apartment building to a group of volunteers who have come to the community to tell people about the dangers of Ebola. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three day lockdo...

Soldiers patrol the streets of Freetown , during the first day of the National lockdown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three day lockdown from 19 September in an attempt to prevent the fu...

A woman suspected of being infected with Ebola lies in an open sewer along the main street in Freetown. Emergency health services took hours to assist the woman and bring her to the hospital. The Sier...

An emergency health worker sprays chlorine next to a woman suspected of being infected with Ebola who is lying in an open sewer along the main street in Freetown. Emergency health services took hours...

Emergency health workers help a woman suspected of being infected with Ebola who was lying in an open sewer along the main street in Freetown. Emergency health services took hours to assist the woman...

A pig and a dog sit next to locals in the Kroo Bay Slum area of Freetown. People have been instructed to listen to police and volunteer workers who will pass through the slum, telling people about the...

Local walk over a makeshift walkway made out of old tyres over a flooded part of the Kroo Bay slum area of Freetown. People have been instructed to listen to police and volunteer workers who will pass...

Police patrol the streets of the Kroo Bay slum area of Freetown. People have been instructed to listen to police and volunteer workers who will pass through the slum, telling people about the dangers...

A man sits on a ledge overlooking the Kroo Bay Slum area of Freetown.

A pig walks across a flooded area in Kroo Bay slum on the first day of the national lockdown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three day lockdown from 19 September in an attempt to prevent t...

A man washes his face at the entrance to his house in the Kroo Bay Slum area. People have been instructed to listen to police and volunteer workers who will pass through the slum, telling people about...

The main street of Freetown's market is deserted during the first day of the National lockdown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three day lockdown from 19 September in an attempt to prevent...

A dog walks across a deserted street in downtown Freetown on the first day of the national lockdown. The Sierra Leone government has declared a three day lockdown from 19 September in an attempt to pr...

A view through a broken wall of a house destroyed during the civil war in Kailahun, eastern Sierra Leone. The town has recorded cases of Ebola and Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) have set up a field ho...

A boy relaxes inside a local theater where locals used to watch football. Now the theater is close as the government has banned public gatherings in private places.The government of Sierra Leone decla...

Dogs play in the main market of Kailahun, eastern Sierra Leone. According to locals this streets used to be full of customers before the Ebola outbreak. The government of Sierra Leone declared a state...

A woman sits near a checkpoint with her baby below a sign which tells people about the effects of the Ebola virus. She is unable to leave the quarantine area near the town of Kenema in eastern Sierra...

A vehicle belonging to Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) is being pulled out of the mud by locals after having got stuck in the mud for few hours. The rainy season is making relief efforts even more diff...

People line up to hear a Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) worker give advice about Ebola and its dangers. Sierra Leone is one of three countries severely affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa...

Dattu Lahai (26), an Ebola survivor, prays inside her small house in Daru after leaving an Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital that morning. Sierra Leone is one of three countries severely affe...

Patients suspected of being infected with Ebola lie on the ground outside the Arab Hospital in Makeni. Sierra Leone is one of three countries severely affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa w...

The corridor from the main entrance of Makeni General Hospital to the isolation ward where suspected Ebola patients are being kept. Sierra Leone is one of three countries severely affected by the Eb...

Nurses of Kenema Hospital working at the reception area of the hospital. The area of Kenema is one of the worst affected by the Ebola virus. Sierra Leone is one of three countries severely affected b...

Patients wait in a tent to be screened before being accepted into the Kenema hospital in Eastern Sierra Leone on 19th August 2014. All patients and relatives who want to enter the hospital have to pas...

The family of Usman Kamara (center in red jeans) at the entrance of their house which they are not allowed to leave. The house has been declared under quarantine and soldiers are guarding the property...

A sheep stands tied to a tree in an area under quarantine in Kenema district. The government has imposed quarantines on houses and entire areas in order to prevent the further spread of Ebola. Sierr...

A mattress from the house of Abubakar Toure, where 18 people died from the Ebola virus in Kenama district. The government has imposed quarantines on houses and entire areas in order to prevent the fu...

A wooden bar is nailed across the window of Usman Kamara's house. The house has been declared under quarantine and soldiers are guarding the property to avoid any movement of Mr. Kamara's family out o...

Patients suspected of being infected with Ebola sit in the courtyard of the Arab Hospital in Makeni. Sierra Leone is one of three countries severely affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa whi...

Mariattu Kanu, 4, (left) is suspected of being infected with Ebola. She is lying on the dirty floor of an isolation ward at the Makeni General Hospital where suspected Ebola patients are being kept. B...

A boy pushes a cart loaded with water containers in Gueckedou, the main town near the border of Liberia. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing at l...

Young men playing football in Gueckedou, the main town near the border of Liberia. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing at least 539 people in thr...

A chart from the WHO explaining the symptoms of Ebola virus infection, on the wall of the health centre in Gueckedou. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa...

A MSF (Doctors Without Borders) doctor washes his hands with chlorine after finishing his work at the field hospital established to fight Ebola virus in Gueckedou. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecede...

Rubber boots used by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff at a field hospital, set up to fight an outbreak of Ebola virus in Gueckedou. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken o...

Workers from MSF (Doctors Without Borders)prepare the field hospital to fight Ebola virus in Gueckedou. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing at le...

A boy sits and cries after a truck from the Red Cross arrived in Koundony with the body of Marie Conde (14) who died that morning after becoming infected with the Ebola virus. An Ebola virus epidemic...

Famhan Conde digs a grave for his half-sister, who died after being infected with the Ebola virus, in the bushes where 26 other victims of Ebola have been buried. An Ebola virus epidemic of unpreceden...

Nurse Fadima Diawara from MSF (Doctors Without Borders) makes a call on a mobile phone at the field hospital in Gueckedou where an Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in W...

Famhan Conde digs a grave for his half-sister, who died after being infected with the Ebola virus, in the bushes where 26 other victims of Ebola have been buried. An Ebola virus epidemic of unpreceden...

MSF (Doctors Without Borders) workers at a field hospital in Gueckedou where an Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing at least 539 people in three cou...

Kumba Conde (25) sits on the ground outside her house and cries for her sister Marie Conde (14) who died that morning after being infected with the Ebola virus. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedente...

A woman collapses and cries after after hearing of the death of a relative who died that morning after becoming infected with the Ebola virus. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has...

A woman dries grains in the centre of Koundony, a village where 26 of the inhabitants have died after being infected with the Ebola virus. An Ebola epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out...

The Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita (yellow)in the village of Bawa where he gives a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in...

A woman collapses and cries after a truck from the Red Cross arrived in Koundony with the body of a relative who died that morning after becoming infected with the Ebola virus. An Ebola virus epidemic...

Inhabitants of the village of Bawa listen intently as the Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita, gives a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has...

Workers from the Red Cross carry the body of Marie Conde (14), who died that morning after becoming infected with the Ebola virus, into the bush near the village of Koundony for burial. An Ebola virus...

Workers from the Red Cross arrive in the village of Koundony with the body of Marie Conde (14) who died that morning after becoming infected with the Ebola virus. An Ebola virus epidemic of unpreceden...

Kumba Conde (25, foreground) collapses and cries after a truck from the Red Cross arrived in Koundony with the body of her sister Marie Conde (14) who died that morning after becoming infected with th...

Workers from the Red Cross arrive in the village of Koundony with the body of Marie Conde (14) who died that morning after becoming infected with the Ebola virus. An Ebola virus epidemic of unpreceden...

Inhabitants of Bawa waiting for the arrival of the Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita in the village. He visited to give a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unpreced...

The Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita (yellow)leaves the village of Bawa after giving a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out i...

The Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita (yellow)in the village of Bawa where he gives a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in...

A man with a megaphone announces the arrival of the Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita, in the village. He visited to give a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprec...

People travel by motorbike through the centre of Gueckedou, the main town near the border of Liberia. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing at leas...

The Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita (yellow) arrives in the village of Bawa to give a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out i...

Residents of the village of Teldou watch as MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff, wearing protective clothing, disinfect a nurse from a private clinic in the village. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprece...

Inhabitants of the village of Bawa listen intently as the Prefect, Mohammed Cinq Keita, gives a speech about the Ebola virus to the population. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has...

A MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff member talks to residents of Teldou village about the eEbola virus as an epidemic of unprecedented proportions spreads fear throughout West Africa. The virus has...

A group of men stand at the entrance to the village of Kolo Bengou to prevent the entrance of any stranger. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing a...

A poster from the health ministry explaining the symptoms of Ebola virus infection, on the wall of field hospital in Gueckedou. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in W...

Members of the WHO and the Red Cross give out chlorine and medical soap to villagers to use as a disinfectant against the Ebola virus. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken o...

MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff disinfect a nurse from a private clinic in the village. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing at least 539 peop...

Residents of the village of Teldou watch as MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff disinfect a nurse, wearing protective clothing, who has been working in a private clinic in the village. An Ebola virus...

A MSF (Doctors Without Borders) vehicle drives an unpaved road near the border between Sierra Leone and Guinea. An Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killi...

MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff disinfect a vehicle after an Ebola virus epidemic of unprecedented proportions has broken out in West Africa killing at least 539 people in three countries. Ebola w...