EBOLA

​In late 2013 the Ebola virus made the leap from bats to humans in a remote village in eastern Guinea, sparking a chain of infection that spread across several West African countries and as far as the United States. The virus killed over 11,000 people, wiping out whole families, crushing people's livelihoods and undoing a decade of painstaking developmental gains. These photos were taken across Sierra Leone and Liberia during the peak of the crisis in the second half of 2014 as the local and international response stepped up it's desperate fight against the relentless spread of the disease.

All images copyright Tommy Trenchard © 2014