International doctors have admitted they don't know the true scale of deaths from the deadly Ebola virus warning the disease is spreading faster than the response.
Meanwhile, a medical worker on the frontline of tackling the disease in Liberia says response teams are unable to document all the cases erupting as many of the sick are being hidden at home rather than taken to Ebola treatment centres.
A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus
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A sick child lies on a mattress in a former classroom in a primary school, which has been transformed into an Ebola ward
A woman stands over her husband with her head in her hands, after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward in Liberia
Workers wearing protective clothing and masks look on as the woman desperately tries to help her husband who has fallen to the ground
The ward, in a former primary school, is where people suspected of having the virus are sent by health workers
Patients in the Ebola isolation centre are forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor after being sent to the facility suspected of having the disease
Three-year-old Nino sits in a newly opened Ebola isolation centre set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school
Children sit in the isolation ward as the disease continues to spread in West Africa
Tarnue Karbbar, who works for the aid group Plan International in northern Liberia says in the last several days, up to 75 new cases a day are emerging in single districts.
He also added that those who have succumbed to the deadly virus are buried before teams can get to the area.
He said: 'Our challenge now is to quarantine the area to successfully break the transmission.'
It comes as Joanne Liu, international president of Doctors Without Borders told reporters in Geneva on Friday that there is no sign of stopping the disease.
Getty Images staff photographer John Moore wears protective clothing, knows as personal protective equipment (PPE), before joining a Liberian burial team set to remove the body of an Ebola victim from her home
Neighbours watch as a son prepares his father to be taken to an Ebola isolation centre yesterday
The facility was constructed to house a surging number of patients diagnosed with Ebola in three west African countries
A son tries to rouse his father in their one-room home (left) before he is taken to an Ebola ward in Liberia; right, a man stands next to the coffin of Dr Modupeh Cole, a doctor from Sierra Leone, who succumbed to the deadly Ebola virus
An Ebola victim is loaded on to a truck by a government burial team at a facility in Kailahun in Sierra Leone
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