The Ebola epidemic: Congo

2-month-old Lahya Kathembo is carried by a nurse waiting for test results at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. Lahya became an orphan in a day. Her mother succumbed to Ebola on a Saturday morning. By sunset her father was dead. Her tests came back negative for Ebola. (Photo: AP)

A child is vaccinated against Ebola in Beni, Congo. Health experts agree the experimental Ebola vaccine has saved multitudes in Congo. (Photo: AP)

Residents line up to be vaccinated against Ebola in Beni, Congo. After nearly some 171,000 doses given, the epidemic shows few signs of waning - over 1700 have died from the disease. (Photo: AP)

A health worker wearing a protective suit walks out of an isolation cube after visiting a patient at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. (Photo: AP)

Rubber gloves and boots used by health workers treating Ebola patients are hung to dry after being disinfected at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. (Photo: AP)

Red Cross workers carry the remains of 16-month-old, Muhindo Kakinire, from the morgue into a truck as health workers disinfect the area in Beni, Congo. (Photo: AP)

Burial workers wearing protective gear carry the remains of Mussa Kathembo, an Islamic scholar who had prayed over those who were sick, in Beni, Congo. He died of Ebola. (Photo: AP)

Claude Mabowa Sasi, 21, who had lost his mother, a brother and a sister to Ebola, takes his college-entry exam in an isolation room at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. It had been his mother's greatest hope that he would go to college. Unable to sit in the same room with other college test-takers, Mabowa took it safely behind a window. After finishing, he held his pages up one by one to the window so they could be photographed with a smartphone and then emailed to officials for scoring. (Photo: AP)

A health worker in protective clothing burns the college entry exam papers completed by Ebola patient Claude Mabowa Sasi, 21, after they were photographed for scoring in Beni, Congo. “I have not lost everything, and I am confident that I will succeed and honor my mother's memory,” Mabowa said. “If she were still here, I think she’d be proud of me.” (Photo: AP)