Gallery: Chilling Photos From the Front Lines of the Ebola Outbreak
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Members of a Red Cross burial team take samples from a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in the village of Dia on Monday, August 18, 2014. So-called "safe burials," conducted by the International Federation of the Red Cross, are conducted in accordance with rigorous safety procedures. The dead bodies of Ebola victims are extremely infectious.
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Members of a Red Cross burial team don personal protective equipment and spray chlorine as they prepare to enter the home of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in the village of Dia on Monday, August 18, 2014. The government of Sierra Leone mandates that all deaths in which the cause is unclear be treated as potential Ebola cases. Contact with the bodies of Ebola victims is a leading cause of virus transmission.
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A health worker takes the temperature of a child at an Ebola checkpoint on the road between Kenema and Freetown, Sierra Leone on Saturday, August 16, 2014. The government imposed an array of checkpoints along the road in a bid to quarantine areas affected by Ebola.
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Doctors Without Borders medical staff discuss patient status across an established safety cordon in an Ebola treatment center in Kailahun, Sierra Leone on Sunday, August 17, 2014. Those in masks stand in the "high risk" zone where highly contagious Ebola victims receive treatment.
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Residents of the village of Sengema, Sierra Leone gather inside a school house to watch Red Cross workers prepare the body of a man suspected of dying of Ebola on Saturday, August 18, 2014.
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Members of a Red Cross burial team put on personal protective equipment before entering the home of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in the village of Dia on Monday, August 18, 2014.
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Residents of the town of Kailahun gather along a river at dusk on Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Kailahun district, in eastern Sierra Leone, has been most heavy affected by the ongoing Ebola outbreak. School in the town has been suspended and residents live in fear.
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A boy wanders through a field of rice near the village of Dia, Sierra Leone on Monday, August 18, 2014. Sierra Leone has been heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, with many of its cases found in rural areas.
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A woman washes her hands with chlorinated water at a checkpoint on the road between Kenema and Freetown, Sierra Leone on Saturday, August 16, 2014. The government imposed an array of checkpoints along the road in a bid to quarantine areas affected by Ebola.
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A government health worker keeps tally of those who pass an Ebola quarantine checkpoint in the road leading from Freetown to Kenema, Sierra Leone on Saturday August 16, 2014. The government of Sierra Leone has set up numerous checkpoints leading into and out of heavily Ebola affected areas.
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Sierra Leonean soldiers man a checkpoint on the road from Freetown to Kenema on Thursday, August 21, 2014. Sierra Leone's police and military have established numerous checkpoints on roads leading into and out of Ebola-affected areas. Only trucks carrying essential goods and persons with government issued permission may cross the checkpoints.
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Red Cross burial workers transport the body of a man suspected of dying from Ebola in the village of Sengema, Sierra Leone on Saturday, August 18, 2014. Bodies are buried away from residential areas in a bid to ensure that the infection will not spread.
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A Sierra Leonean solider mans a checkpoint on the road from Freetown to Kenema on Friday, August 22, 2014.
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Relatives of a man suspected of dying of Ebola look on as Red Cross workers pack his body in the village of Sengema, Sierra Leone on Saturday, August 16, 2014. Family and community members are encouraged not to touch the bodies of those suspected of dying from Ebola as the bodies are highly contagious. This aspect of the virus has seriously disrupted traditional funeral ceremonies.
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People who were denied passage at a checkpoint outside of Kenema wait on the roadside on Friday, August 22, 2014. Only those in possession of a government issued permit are allowed to cross Ebola quarantine checkpoints. (Pete Muller/Prime for the Washington Post)
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Members of a Red Cross burial team prepare to bury the body of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in the village of Dia, Sierra Leone, on Monday, August 18, 2014. (Pete Muller/Prime for the Washington Post)
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