Photographer John Moore in his protective suit.

Photographer John Moore in his protective suit.

In a school building used to quarantine Ebola patients in Monrovia, Liberia, Umu Fambulle stands over her infected husband after he fell. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries and has overwhelmed the Liberian health system.

A woman argued with local residents as she tried to convince them that the epidemic is real.

A sick child was carried from the center as the crowd watched.  Many in the crowd said they believe the Ebola epidemic is a hoax.

Local residents gather around a very sick Saah Exco, 10, in a back alley of the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia. 

A Liberian soldier, part of the Ebola task force, beats a resident while enforcing a quarantine in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia.

An Ebola tracing coordinator checks the temperature of Benson, 2 months, finding her to have a fever of 100.76F (38.2C) in the West Point neighborhood in Monrovia, Liberia. 

A worker disinfected the body with a chlorine bleach solution before it was removed from a house in Monrovia, Liberia.

Sophia Doe sits with her grandchildren Beauty Mandi, 9 months (L) and Arthuneh Qunoh, 9, (R), while watching the arrival an Ebola burial team to take away the body of her daughter Mekie Nagbe, 28, for cremation in Monrovia, Liberia.

A burial team from the Liberian Ministry of Health unloads the bodies of Ebola victims onto a funeral pyre at a crematorium in Marshall, Liberia.

A Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center in Paynesville, Liberia. 

A health worker takes the temperature of U.S. Marines arriving to take part in Operation United Assistance near Monrovia, Liberia. 

A woman crawls towards the body of her sister as Ebola burial team members take her sister Mekie Nagbe, 28, for cremation in Monrovia, Liberia.