An actor, playing the role of Ebola, prepares before a performance during an awareness campaign against the virus at Anono school in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, September 25, 2014. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

A Liberian woman stands as health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia, August 17, 2014. REUTERS/2Tango

A health worker checks the temperature of a woman entering Mali from Guinea at the border in Kouremale, Mali, October 2, 2014. REUTERS/Joe Penney

Korpo Klay watches as a Liberian health department burial team prepares to enter the home of her deceased cousin Kormassa Kaba, who was suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on Aug. 14, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

2014 Pictures of the year: Ebola

A health worker wearing protective equipment feeds a patient being treated for Ebola at the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Christopher Black/WHO

A burial team wearing protective clothes, remove a body from an isolated holding centre, for people waiting for laboratory results, at the Port Loko District Hospital, September 27, 2014. REUTERS/Christopher Black/WHO

Health workers push an Ebola patient who escaped from quarantine from Monrovia's Elwa hospital, into an ambulance in the center of Paynesville, September 1, 2014. REUTERS/Reuters TV

Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia, August 17, 2014. REUTERS/2Tango

A man passes a bag, delivered by the Red Cross and the North Texas Food Bank, in to the apartment unit at The Ivy Apartments complex where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, October 2, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Stone

A man, who according to a member of Doctors Without Borders, was thought to be carrying the Ebola Virus, lays dead on a street in Monrovia, September 9, 2014. REUTERS/James Giahyue

Bystanders read headlines saying Ebola 1: USA 0 at the Daily Talk, a street side chalkboard newspaper, in Monrovia, Liberia, October 16, 2014. REUTERS/James Giahyue

A person peeks out from within the apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, October 3, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young

A member of a burial team sprays a colleague with chlorine disinfectant in Monrovia, October 20, 2014. REUTERS/James Giahyue

Mercy Kennedy, 9, cries as she learned her mother has died, outside her home in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday Oct. 2, 2014. Kennedy’s mother was taken away by an ambulance to an Ebola ward the day before. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Miamu Saryon, 7, stands in the hallway of Mawah clinic, in downtown Monrovia, Liberia on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A health worker brings a woman suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus to an ambulance in Monrovia, Liberia, September 15, 2014. REUTERS/James Giahyue

Residents of the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, watch members of District 13 ambulance service disinfect a room as they pick up six suspected Ebola sufferers that had been quarantined, Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Gordon Kamara, left, is sprayed by Konah Deno after they loaded six patients suspected to have been infected by the Ebola virus into their ambulance in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Residents of the St. Paul Bridge neighborhood wearing personal protective equipment take a man suspected of carrying the Ebola virus to the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, Sunday Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

An Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) worker is sprayed and disinfected as he leaves a high risk zone of MSF’s Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A girls runs as a burial team prepares to collect the dead body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on Aug. 14, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

A burial team from the Liberian health department prays before entering a house to remove the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on Aug. 14, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

A man too weak to walk arrives at the MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A burial team from the Liberian health department sprays disinfectant over the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on Aug. 14, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

People watch as a son prepares his father to be taken to an Ebola isolation center on Aug. 15, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

A son tries to prepare his father in their one-room home before they are taken to an Ebola isolation ward on Aug. 15, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

A man carries out a girl from an Ebola isolation center as a mob overruns the facility in the West Point slum on Aug. 16, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

Batu Flowers tries to convince local residents that the Ebola epidemic is real on Aug. 16, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

A woman wipes her nose after protesters drove out an Ebola burial team who had come to collect the bodies of four people who had died overnight in the West Point slum on Aug. 16, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

An MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) nurse gets prepared with Personal Protection Equipment before entering a high risk zone of MSF’s Ebola isolation and treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Liberian burial team wearing protective clothing retrieves the body of a 60-year-old Ebola victim from his home on Aug. 17, 2014 near Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

Workers prepare the new Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center on Aug. 17, 2014 near Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

An Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) employee walks past drying safety boots at MSF’s Ebola isolation and treatment center, in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Public health advocates play music to attract people for an Ebola awareness and prevention event on Aug. 18, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

Daniel Berehulak. Monrovia, Liberia. Sept. 5, 2014

Nine-year-old Nowa Paye is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia,Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

A Doctors Without Borders health worker in protective clothing holds a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia (John Moore / Getty News Images)

A very sick boy, 10, lies in a back alley of the West Point slum in Monrovia on Aug. 19, 2014. The boy was one of the patients who was pulled out of a holding center for suspected Ebola patients when the facility was overrun by a mob on Saturday. A local clinic refused to treat the boy on Tuesday, according to residents, because of the danger of infectionJohn Moore, Getty Images

A Liberian health worker speaks with families in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward on Aug. 15, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

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. John Moore/Getty Images

Ibrahim Fambulle, sick and weak, tries to stand as a corpse lies nearby in an Ebola ward on Aug. 15, 2014 in Monrovia. John Moore, Getty Images

A Liberian health worker in Monrovia disinfects a corpse after the man died in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward. John Moore/Getty Images

A man lies on a mattress on the floor of the isolation center. John Moore/Getty Images

Sowe, whose mother said she is 15, sits in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward in Monrovia. John Moore/Getty Images

Three-year-old Nino sits at the Ebola isolation center. John Moore/Getty Images

The Survivors

Ebola survivor James Mulbah, 2, stands with his mother, Tamah Mulbah, 28, who also recovered from Ebola in the low-risk section of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center, after a survivors' meeting on October 16, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia

Ebola survivors Zaizay Mulbah, 34, and Mark Jerry, 30, right, stand together before their shifts as nurse's assistants at the Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center on October 12, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. Jerry was a money changer and Mulbah a delivery driver before they caught the disease and went to the center, where they recovered. Doctors Without Borders hired them afterward to counsel and comfort others stricken by the disease. John Moore/Getty Images

Ebola survivor Sontay Massaley, 37, smiles upon her release from the Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center on October 12, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. Massaley, who spent 8 days recovering from the disease in the center, said she worked as a vendor in a market before contracting the virus. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Ebola survivor Lassana Jabeteh, 36, smiles before his shift as a nurse's assistant at the Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center on October 12, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. He said that he previously worked as a taxi driver and that he thinks he caught Ebola when he transported a sick policeman who vomited in his car on the way to the hospital. Doctors Without Borders hired Jabeteh after he recovered in their treatment center and he now counsels and comforts others stricken by the disease. (John Moore/Getty Images)

James Harris, 29. Harris spent two weeks recovering from the disease. The former construction worker said he believes he caught Ebola while caring for his father, who died of the virus at home. He now counsels others at a treatment center. (John Moore/Getty Images)

3-Year-Old Ebola Survivor Proposes To Nurse by Anders Kelto for NPR - Ibrahim is one of three brothers who lost their mother to Ebola - but survived. While waiting to be reunited with his dad, the little boy fell in love.

Dr. Kent Brantly, Physician with Samaritan’s Purse, Ebola survivor.

Foday Gallah, Ambulance supervisor, Monrovia, and Ebola survivor

Salome Karwah, Nurse’s assistant at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Monrovia and an Ebola survivor

"Ebola is a disease that divides husband and wife, mother and child, doctor and patient. Health care workers in protective gear that look like space suits attend to patients. Men with chlorine spray-cans take away bodies. Families aren't given the chance to say goodbye to their loved ones. Because the virus is transmitted through touch, it overrides the basic human need for contact and connection.

In this picture, health care workers hold hands and pray before doing the risky work of entering an Ebola isolation ward. They find a way to connect despite the layers of latex. No one wants to be alone when facing Ebola. I'm not a religious person. At times like this though, there's little to do but hold hands and pray for each other.“

Glenna Gordon, Sept. 29, 2014. Monrovia, Liberia.

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