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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Photographing Ebola: John Moore in Liberia [Watch (HLS stream): Photographing Ebola: John Moore in Liberia](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7vV9HzPX.m3u8) (6:04)  _Published 2014-12-09. Getty Images photographer discusses his experience covering the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in Liberia_ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:37 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [People Are Prank Calling Liberia’s Ebola Hotline](/video/HcGM1a2H/) ### People Are Prank Calling Liberia’s Ebola Hotline [How Ebola is Changing Liberia](/video/bIJG7Y1S/) ### How Ebola is Changing Liberia [Watch: In Liberia, Ebola is Fought With Gospel and Chlorine](/video/hRNUHZyS/) ### Watch: In Liberia, Ebola is Fought With Gospel and Chlorine --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I always like to get some sort of consent from people before I start photographing them. It was very hard, when I had goggles on and I was wearing protective clothing, to establish a connection with people. [ MUSIC ] I had heard about the epidemic this spring. But really it got my attention this summer when MSF Doctors without Borders described the situation in Monrovia the capital of Liberia as potentially catastrophic. When you're working in an infectious area you're very conscious about what you touch and what you don't touch. I don't think I shook anyone's hand. The whole time I was in Liberia. Occasionally we gave what they call a elbow bump and that's and that's it. And everyone understands that it's not being impolite. It's just the way you survive. I spent a lot of time especially during my first visit photographing in the West Point township of Monrovia. It's a very congested area. More than 75, 000 people live on a very small peninsula. And West Point is located right near the heart of Monrovia. And so authorities were specifically concerned about that neighborhood. If Ebola took hold there it can spread quickly throughout the capital. One person told me about an isolation center which had just been opened in the West Point slum. This was a former school, which had been closed because of the epidemic. I went to the school and people were being brought by ambulance, people were very weak. One day a child would be healthy looking and the next day that same child would be face down on a mattress and not moving. They were clearly dehydrated and feverish and were being led into this place which is very dark. It did not have electricity or running water. People were led into rooms. And given mattresses and were basically lying on the floor. I was dressed in protective clothing. Well, inside that school, many of the patients were being taken into a very large classroom with a blackboard. And it smelled very strongly of chlorine because the health workers had been spraying around the room. There were healthy people. And there were dead people lying together in the same room. It was a very haunting situation. The health workers tried to move the healthy people to another place. Some of them were able to get up and walk to another room. This one man really struggled to get up. His name was Abraham. He finally got to his feet. And started walking out the door and he lost his balance and he fell straight back onto his head. The sound of his head hitting the floor is something I'll, I'll never forget. ju, it's just horrible. His wife rushed back into the room and was standing over him and she didn't know what to do. She knew she wasn't supposed to touch him. So she stood over him and waited for health workers to come and then they tried to revive him. I never saw Abraham move again. And I was told he died, later that day. [ MUSIC ] The burial teams put on their personal protective gear. They would go into a house. Spray down the whole area. They would collect a body and put it into a body bag. And so they may have eight Ebola victims to collect during the course of a day. And they would have to suit up and then take it all off eight times. And through all this repetition of course they become better at it and more safe but at the same time there's. There's there's many opportunities for mistakes. And many health workers in Liberia have died in the course of their work. They have some of the hardest jobs you can imagine. Collecting Ebola victims every day. Not just mentally, but physically, because of the heat. And very stressful, cuz they know if they make a mistake, that could be their lives. And, potentially those of their family members. Members if they infect other people. A person who has dies of Ebola, their body almost becomes a virus bomb. It's highly infectious. When people are most likely to be infected is when they touch a dead body. And that happens during burial rights and it's been very difficult for Liberians to accept that their loved ones will be cremated. Cremation is not a normal in Liberian society. I think that day there were two or three dozen bags that were put on top of the wood. And afterwards they, they put fuel on top and they, they set it ablaze. And it burns all night long. The media were not invited to be there. The Liberian government did not want pictures of it cuz they knew that cremation. Nation is very sensitive and a very sore point for Liberians in general. Ebola is a very dehumanizing illness. Because it takes away the ability of people to comfort their loved ones to touch them to clean them. To comfort them, in a terrible time. It's horrible for the family members and traumatic for them because their last memories with this loved one are not ones of comforting and helping, they're ones of standing by, as a team of health workers dressed in anti- contamination suits comes in and takes their loved one away. I think that would be horrible for any of us. 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