I'm professor Hans Rosling.
Let me show you how ordinary people live
in those areas of West Africa
that are worst hit by the Ebola epidemic.
Here, this is Liberia.
And when we zoom in,
you can see the capital Monrovia,
and this is the suburb West Point,
where some of the poorest people live.
This is how they live!
A small little house with only one room,
and one bed.
Father and mother and the children
sleep in the same room where they eat their meals.
And when they get sick,
they need to go to the toilet -
this is how it looks, outside,
just close to the neighbour's toilet.
And there's no place to wash your hands there:
they have to go back to the house,
where they have water,
and they wash in this sort of utensils.
And then, when they should go
and wash their clothes, this is what they have.
And even if the family has the best knowledge
about the risks of infections,
when one family member get high fever,
and get sick and diarrhea and coughing,
there's no way they could isolate the others from that person.
The home is just too crammed, too small.
So they really need as soon as possible
to get the Ebola treatment units,
the mobile hospitals in place,
so that the sick family member
could be brought there and treated in a way
so that they don't infect anyone else.
That's the way to stop the Ebola epidemic
right now, where it is.