Helpless in the face of Ebola - PHOTO

With little healthcare or education to speak of, there is nothing residents can do except watch as their loved ones succumb to the deadly Ebola virus ravaging the city.Crippled by poverty and still reeling from the effects of a devastating civil war, Liberia is ill-equipped to deal with a potential human catastrophe on this scale.The latest statistics from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) place the death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak at 4,447, with the vast majority of those fatalities in West Africa.  More than half the dead have been in Liberia.The country's slum-dwelling population are some of the hardest hit by the epidemic which has sent shockwaves across West Africa and the world.WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward said the U.N. health agency was still focused on trying to treat Ebola patients, despite the huge demands on the broken health systems in West Africa.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az