A brave Aussie nurse fighting the war against the devastating disease that is Ebola has shared her story from deep inside 'the Ebola death zone'. Anne Carey, 56, from Esperence in Western Australia has been on the front line in Africa since the outbreak of the killer virus, and has no regrets despite playing almost daily witness to suffering and fatality. She was one of the first Australians to arrive in Sierra Leone, as the disease began to take a deadly hold on the west African country, and speaking to 60 Minutes she revealed the horror and heartbreak of her work. Scroll down for videos . Anne Carey has told of the horror and heartbreak that comes with working as a nurse caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone . The West Australian woman said the virus does not discriminate and affects anyone that comes into contact with it . As a volunteer for the Red Cross, Anne is currently on her third trip to the high-risk region, and describes the deadly Ebola crisis as 'an unfair bully' As a volunteer for the Red Cross, Anne is currently on her third trip to the high-risk region, and describes the deadly Ebola crisis as 'an unfair bully'. ‘Sometimes you have to take the bullies on, and win,' she told reporter Michael Usher. Anne recalled the first patient she ever saw just as she had stepped inside a treatment centre, set up especially to treat Ebola patients. 'I got dressed up in the protective suit and there was a mother with her four-week-old child, and that child as soon as I came into the centre  it convulsed, so it fitted, and it proceeded to bleed from everywhere and it just bled to death,' the nurse recalled. She told her story to 60 Minutes on Sunday evening, revealing what the past months have been like for her in Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone . All the volunteers at the centres must take exceptional care when getting 'suited up' to enter the centres . Journalist Michael Usher and a team from 60 Minutes travelled to the deadly zone to report on the crisis . When that young baby died that mother lost her seventh child. 'When this child died she had nothing to live for,' Anne revealed. 'It’s an angry virus yes, it takes everybody. It doesn't matter who you are if you let it in it will take you,' Anne said. During the program she also tells of her struggle to even get into the country, as most commercial flights to the region were cancelled as the outbreak escalated... and then the heartbreak of seeing the virus afflict young and old and how it would claim so many victims, many of those she had cared for. 'It doesn't matter who you are, it affects everybody,' she said, admitting that death is around her, every day. Anne said how sometimes the job is about 'comforting' the sick and dying . The awful reality of working in Ebola afflicted areas in west Africa, as Red Cross workers bury another victim of the virus at the nearby cemetery . 'It doesn't matter who you are, it effects everybody,' Anne Carey said about the Ebola virus which has claimed almost 10,000 lives across parts of west Africa . The 'violent and deadly virus', which has threatened the population of West Africa, has seen already more than 23,000 people infected, with at least 10,000 known to have died from the causes of Ebola. The West Australian nurse started working with Red Cross about 10 years ago. Her previous assignments include missions to Lokichoggio on the Sudan/Kenya border, tending to war-wounded patients at the Red Cross Hospital and she was also stationed at Darfur, Sudan, in the local feeding centres. While working to try and get the Ebola epidemic under control, Anne revealed although lives are always at stake, the process or transferring and treating patients must be meticulous to avoid spreading the deadly virus. At the centre where Anne works there are a number of tents organised by how seriously a person is thought to be suffering. They are arranged in order of severity from suspected, probable to confirmed cases. It was also revealed that victims of the horrific disease may arrive at centres knowing they will die there. Patients become even more contagious after death, and therefore bodies and body bags have to be drenched in chlorine to prevent contamination. Anne Carey places her protective suit on before going to work as a nursing volunteer in Sierra Leone's so-called 'death zone' Red Cross nurse Anne Carey celebrates Christmas at the Red Cross Ebola treatment centre in Kenema with local volunteers who have been working and saving lives since the disease first broke out . Anne Carey is on her third assignment to help people survive Ebola and control the disease in that part of the world . Anne (centre) is pictured with reporter Michael Usher (right) during a briefing at the Red Cross treatment centre in the Kono district . Anne is on her third assignment to help people survive Ebola and control the disease in that part of the world, working as a clinical nurse with the international Red Cross near the town of Kenema and in the Kono district. It's considered among the most seriously affected parts of Sierra Leone. Anne Carey is one of 27 Australian Red Cross aid workers sent to tackle Ebola, working with more than 200 international Red Cross staff members and upwards of 6,100 local volunteers in West Africa. Australian Red Cross is one of the few Australian agencies working on the front-line, trying to help bring the disease under control. Also helping fight the deadly disease is a survivor of Ebola, Edwin. The nurse said she's 'knows when people are going to die', as this man tragically did just the day after filming . Edwin is an Ebola survivor who contacted the disease while working as a nurse. He now has immunity and is continuing to help others fight it . He was exposed to the virus during his work as a nurse, but was one of the lucky ones who survived. He now has immunity from Ebola and is back working with Anne, donating his blood to help others who have contracted the virus. When asked if it felt as though Anne had been to war, she responded that the war wasn't over. 'I feel like I still am, but I feel like we’re going to win the war. 'I think we've got to win the war but I feel like we will, I think in the end we’ll get there,' she said. Australian Red Cross aid worker Anne Carey with local Red Cross volunteers, an Ebola survivor and her baby at the Red Cross Ebola treatment centre in Kono, Sierra Leone . The horrible reality of the Ebola virus is seen through the makeshift cemetery just a short walk from where Anne Carey and her colleagues tend the sick and dying . Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the worst hit areas. Here health workers wearing Ebola protective gear remove the body of a man who died from the Ebola virus at the treatment centre on the outskirts of Monrovia . Meantime, Sierra Leone, Guinea and . Liberia, the three countries hardest hit by the epidemic, set a target of reducing the number of new cases to zero . within 60 days, the countries said on Monday. The worst Ebola epidemic in history broke out in late 2013 . in Guinea and has killed close to 10,000 people. The . spread of the virus is slowing but the World Heath Organization . warned against complacency. West Africa recorded 128 new confirmed cases of Ebola in the past week, the first decrease in three weeks. Scares remain, however, Sierra Leone placed hundreds of homes in the capital under Ebola quarantine recently after the death of a fisherman who tested positive to Ebola. Less than a month after it lifted all restrictions on movement, the government said 700 properties had been locked down in Aberdeen, a fishing and tourist district of Freetown. 'We are on top of the situation and people should not panic,' said Obi Sesay of the government's National Ebola Response Centre. The Red Cross Ebola Outbreak Appeal can be supported at www.redcross.org.au .
Anne Carey has been working in Sierra Leone's Ebola hospitals for several months as part of the Red Cross .
The volunteer nurse was one of the first Australians to make it into the so-called 'death zone'
She tells of the heartache of watching defenceless babies lose their battle against the killer .
At least 10,000 people have died since the 2013 outbreak in west Africa .
Her story featured Sunday night on 60 Minutes Australia on the Nine Network .
A brave Aussie nurse fighting the war against the devastating disease that is Ebola has shared her story from deep inside 'the Ebola death zone'. Anne Carey, 56, from Esperence in Western Australia has been on the front line in Africa since the outbreak of the killer virus, and has no regrets despite playing almost daily witness to suffering and fatality. She was one of the first Australians to arrive in Sierra Leone, as the disease began to take a deadly hold on the west African country, and speaking to 60 Minutes she revealed the horror and heartbreak of her work. Scroll down for videos . Anne Carey has told of the horror and heartbreak that comes with working as a nurse caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone . The West Australian woman said the virus does not discriminate and affects anyone that comes into contact with it . As a volunteer for the Red Cross, Anne is currently on her third trip to the high-risk region, and describes the deadly Ebola crisis as 'an unfair bully' As a volunteer for the Red Cross, Anne is currently on her third trip to the high-risk region, and describes the deadly Ebola crisis as 'an unfair bully'. ‘Sometimes you have to take the bullies on, and win,' she told reporter Michael Usher. Anne recalled the first patient she ever saw just as she had stepped inside a treatment centre, set up especially to treat Ebola patients. 'I got dressed up in the protective suit and there was a mother with her four-week-old child, and that child as soon as I came into the centre  it convulsed, so it fitted, and it proceeded to bleed from everywhere and it just bled to death,' the nurse recalled. She told her story to 60 Minutes on Sunday evening, revealing what the past months have been like for her in Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone . All the volunteers at the centres must take exceptional care when getting 'suited up' to enter the centres . Journalist Michael Usher and a team from 60 Minutes travelled to the deadly zone to report on the crisis . When that young baby died that mother lost her seventh child. 'When this child died she had nothing to live for,' Anne revealed. 'It’s an angry virus yes, it takes everybody. It doesn't matter who you are if you let it in it will take you,' Anne said. During the program she also tells of her struggle to even get into the country, as most commercial flights to the region were cancelled as the outbreak escalated... and then the heartbreak of seeing the virus afflict young and old and how it would claim so many victims, many of those she had cared for. 'It doesn't matter who you are, it affects everybody,' she said, admitting that death is around her, every day. Anne said how sometimes the job is about 'comforting' the sick and dying . The awful reality of working in Ebola afflicted areas in west Africa, as Red Cross workers bury another victim of the virus at the nearby cemetery . 'It doesn't matter who you are, it effects everybody,' Anne Carey said about the Ebola virus which has claimed almost 10,000 lives across parts of west Africa . The 'violent and deadly virus', which has threatened the population of West Africa, has seen already more than 23,000 people infected, with at least 10,000 known to have died from the causes of Ebola. The West Australian nurse started working with Red Cross about 10 years ago. Her previous assignments include missions to Lokichoggio on the Sudan/Kenya border, tending to war-wounded patients at the Red Cross Hospital and she was also stationed at Darfur, Sudan, in the local feeding centres. While working to try and get the Ebola epidemic under control, Anne revealed although lives are always at stake, the process or transferring and treating patients must be meticulous to avoid spreading the deadly virus. At the centre where Anne works there are a number of tents organised by how seriously a person is thought to be suffering. They are arranged in order of severity from suspected, probable to confirmed cases. It was also revealed that victims of the horrific disease may arrive at centres knowing they will die there. Patients become even more contagious after death, and therefore bodies and body bags have to be drenched in chlorine to prevent contamination. Anne Carey places her protective suit on before going to work as a nursing volunteer in Sierra Leone's so-called 'death zone' Red Cross nurse Anne Carey celebrates Christmas at the Red Cross Ebola treatment centre in Kenema with local volunteers who have been working and saving lives since the disease first broke out . Anne Carey is on her third assignment to help people survive Ebola and control the disease in that part of the world . Anne (centre) is pictured with reporter Michael Usher (right) during a briefing at the Red Cross treatment centre in the Kono district . Anne is on her third assignment to help people survive Ebola and control the disease in that part of the world, working as a clinical nurse with the international Red Cross near the town of Kenema and in the Kono district. It's considered among the most seriously affected parts of Sierra Leone. Anne Carey is one of 27 Australian Red Cross aid workers sent to tackle Ebola, working with more than 200 international Red Cross staff members and upwards of 6,100 local volunteers in West Africa. Australian Red Cross is one of the few Australian agencies working on the front-line, trying to help bring the disease under control. Also helping fight the deadly disease is a survivor of Ebola, Edwin. The nurse said she's 'knows when people are going to die', as this man tragically did just the day after filming . Edwin is an Ebola survivor who contacted the disease while working as a nurse. He now has immunity and is continuing to help others fight it . He was exposed to the virus during his work as a nurse, but was one of the lucky ones who survived. He now has immunity from Ebola and is back working with Anne, donating his blood to help others who have contracted the virus. When asked if it felt as though Anne had been to war, she responded that the war wasn't over. 'I feel like I still am, but I feel like we’re going to win the war. 'I think we've got to win the war but I feel like we will, I think in the end we’ll get there,' she said. Australian Red Cross aid worker Anne Carey with local Red Cross volunteers, an Ebola survivor and her baby at the Red Cross Ebola treatment centre in Kono, Sierra Leone . The horrible reality of the Ebola virus is seen through the makeshift cemetery just a short walk from where Anne Carey and her colleagues tend the sick and dying . Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the worst hit areas. Here health workers wearing Ebola protective gear remove the body of a man who died from the Ebola virus at the treatment centre on the outskirts of Monrovia . Meantime, Sierra Leone, Guinea and . Liberia, the three countries hardest hit by the epidemic, set a target of reducing the number of new cases to zero . within 60 days, the countries said on Monday. The worst Ebola epidemic in history broke out in late 2013 . in Guinea and has killed close to 10,000 people. The . spread of the virus is slowing but the World Heath Organization . warned against complacency. West Africa recorded 128 new confirmed cases of Ebola in the past week, the first decrease in three weeks. Scares remain, however, Sierra Leone placed hundreds of homes in the capital under Ebola quarantine recently after the death of a fisherman who tested positive to Ebola. Less than a month after it lifted all restrictions on movement, the government said 700 properties had been locked down in Aberdeen, a fishing and tourist district of Freetown. 'We are on top of the situation and people should not panic,' said Obi Sesay of the government's National Ebola Response Centre. The Red Cross Ebola Outbreak Appeal can be supported at www.redcross.org.au .
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