Bodies in barrows and patients writhing on dirty mattresses: Liberia struggles to contain Ebola epidemic as official death toll nears 3,500
- Overwhelmed medical centers can't cope with influx of cases in West Africa
- Today's figures set death toll at 3,355 - but officials admit this is too low
- Entire families of sufferers left on dirty mattresses in holding centers
This is the scene at the heart of the Ebola crisis sweeping West Africa, which this week crossed the Atlantic and brought the first confirmed case to the United States.
The epicenter of the deadly virus is in impoverished Liberia, from which Thomas Duncan made his journey to Texas last month.
Dying patients are wheeled from the spots in the street where they fell to medical centers unable to cope with the constant tide of sufferers.
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Stricken: A health worker sets down a woman thought to be suffering from Ebola outside a treatment center in Liberia
Barely coping: A patient waits on a mattress as a health worker approached with a thermometer - using a sheet of torn-up cardboard to carry the device, rather than his hands
Dying: The disease - which is almost always fatal - has affected thousands in West Africa. Above, health workers check on a patient who has been left suffering on a mattress in the treatment center
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