Photojournalist Neil Brandvold recently shot video of patients and caregivers in Liberia and Sierra Leone, at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,400 people in recent months.

Now home in Washington, D.C., Brandvold is spending 21 days in self-imposed isolation—the maximum incubation period for Ebola—and seeing as few people as possible, on the off chance that he might be incubating the virus himself. Mostly, he said, he's doing it because other people are afraid to be around him. (Related: Ebola Outbreak in United States Sees Another Diagnosis)

While in West Africa, he ate his own packaged granola bars, beef jerky, and ramen so he wouldn't have to eat locally prepared foods. When it was time