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Liberia was hard hit by the Ebola outbreak and health facilities at the time were overwhelmed. After almost two years, on January 14, 2016 the World Health Organization declared the epidemic over. The virus had killed some 11,300 people and infected more than 28,500 people in West Africa.


(TOP PHOTO) Omu Fahnbulleh found her husband unconscious on the floor of an Ebola ward August 15, 2014. This facility was a closed primary school. Later that month, it was overrun and Ebola patients were removed by a mob, who claimed that the Ebola epidemic was a hoax.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) A caretaker stands in a classroom, empty of students during a school vacation on February 9, 2016. The school is in the West point slum in Monrovia.


(TOP PHOTO) Liberian health workers usher in new arrivals to a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up in a school on August 14, 2014.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) Caretakers eat lunch at the entrance of a school formerly used as an Ebola holding centre on February 9, 2016


(TOP PHOTO) Liberian riot policemen enforce a quarantine on the West Point slum, a congested favella of 75,000 people, on August 20, 2014.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) Women walk with their wares through the West Point slum on February 9, 2016 in Monrovia.


(TOP PHOTO) A local resident checks on a very sick Saah Exco, 10, in a back alley August 19, 2014. He had been forcibly removed from a health centre by a mob. Both his mother and brother died of suspected Ebola.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) People pass by the sea-eroded spot February 9, 2016 where a boy Saah Exco lay in 2014 before dying of Ebola.


(TOP PHOTO) A mother and child stand atop their mattresses in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward on August 15, 2014.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) Desks sit empty on February 9, 2016 during a school vacation in a classroom formerly used as an Ebola holding center.


(TOP PHOTO) Midwife Maima Johnson hands a newborn girl to mother Cecelia Mensah, 20, after delivering the child January 29, 2015. Midwives and health workers in the clinic have taken extra precautions throughout Liberia's Ebola epidemic to avoid becoming infected.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) Beds lie empty in a clinic in the West Point slum on February 9, 2016 in Monrovia.


(TOP PHOTO) A corpse lies in a classroom used as Ebola ward on August 15, 2014.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) A health worker picks up a textbook in a classroom of a former Ebola holding centre in the West Point slum on February 9, 2016.


(TOP PHOTO) Mattresses looted from an Ebola isolation center float in a seaside dump in the West Point slum on August 19, 2014.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) Boys carry wood for construction along the refuge-strewn shoreline of the West Point slum on February 9, 2016.


(TOP PHOTO) A crowd speaks through the gates of an Ebola isolation centre before pushing their way inside on August 16, 2014.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) A school formerly used as an Ebola holding centre stands in the West Point slum on February 9, 2016.


(TOP PHOTO) An Ebola tracing coordinator checks the temperature of Benson, 2 months, finding her to have a fever of 38.2C October 17, 2014. Health workers came later to take the baby, her mother and grandmother to a holding centre. A family member had died the day before.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) On February 9, 2016, a teddy bear sits on a bed where a feverish baby Benson was taken to an Ebola treatment centre in October 2014.


(TOP PHOTO) Local residents tell patients in an Ebola isolation ward to come out as a mob overran the facility on August 16, 2014.


(BOTTOM PHOTO) Children play basketball in front of a school, formerly an Ebola centre, February 10, 2016 in Monrovia. The school was cleaned and refurbished following the epidemic.