Liberia Races To Expand Ebola Treatment Facilities, As U.S. Troops Arrive

MONROVIA, LIBERIA - OCTOBER 10: Sophia Doe holds her granddaughter Beauty Mandi, 9 months, as an Ebola burial team arrives to take away her daughter, (the child's mother), Mekie Nagbe, 28, for cremation on October 10, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The children seen in the photo are daughters of the deceased. Mekie Nagbe, a market vendor died outside her home earlier in the morning while trying to walk to a treatment center, according to her relatives. The burial of loved ones is important in Liberian culture, making the removal of infected bodies for cremation all the more traumatic for surviving family members. The World Health Organization says the Ebola epidemic has now killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa.The woman had died outside her home earlier in the morning while trying to walk to a treatment center, according to her relatives. The burial of loved ones is important in Liberian culture, making the removal of infected bodies for cremation all the more traumatic for surviving family members. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)