Health care workers dressed in layer-upon-layer of protective gear are caring for one of their own —  a nurse — in a high-risk ebola ward in West Africa who caught the virus from a patient.

The nurse knows her chances of survival are 10 percent — a virtual death sentence — according to a SkyNews video.

Even the TV crew’s camera is encased in disposable plastic.

Wards are divided into suspected cases and confirmed cases. There’s very little separating the two. By the time they get to the high-risk ward, patients’ chances of survival are slim, SkyNews reports.

“We are calling on the international community,” said Phillip Azumah, a district health officer in Foya, a town in Lofa County, Liberia, that is home to the Kissi-speaking tribes. “Right now we cant do it alone.”

The border between Guinea and Liberia is virtually non existent, SkyNews reports. This is one of reasons the disease spread so easily into the two countries and Sierra Leone.

Panic and fear set in wherever ebola strikes. Few want to admit there’s an ebola victim in the family. Those with symptoms hide and prefer to die in secret rather than be outcasts, SkyNews reports. If someone dies in a house, the house is abandoned and no one will go near it.

After burying the dead, health care workers burn or bury their clothing and equipment used to bury the dead.

As of June 30, the World Health Organization reports 759 cases of ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, including 467 deaths, according to RT.com.