Umu Fambulle stands over her husband Ibrahim after he weakly got to his feet and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola holding center on August 15, 2014 in the West Point township of Monrovia, Liberia. He died the same day. The Liberian capital was quickly overwhelmed by the epidemic in late summer, as the Ebola virus moved from a rural to an urban environment, making Monrovia the Ebola epicenter in West Africa. Only a decade after a long civil war, Liberia's fragile health system was unable to cope, international agencies were slow to react, and fear gripped the nation.