A man who initially appeared dead due to Ebola in Liberia had surprised a TV news crew when he woke up while they were filming about the outbreak in the distraught country.

Dr. Richard Besser and a TV crew from 'Good Morning America' were shooting a report about how difficult it was to get help for the sick in a community in Monrovia where they found an Ebola burial team trying to get a dead man out of an enraged community.

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According to Besser's report, concerned members of the community had been trying to get help for the 37-year-old man while he was sick but no ambulance ever came.

An hour after the man had died, a burial team immediately worked on his corpse which would be transported to a crematorium.

The team sprayed him and the pavement with bleach, and later covered the corpse with cloth.

"We couldn't get him help when he was alive. They only come when you die," the community leader told Besser as the dead man is being wrapped up in a black plastic sheet by several men wearing the standard Ebola-protective gear.

A few moments after he was lifted, a man shouted "He's alive!" inciting cheers from the crowd.

Besser and the crew saw how the man showed the slightest sign of life by slightly moving his arm. Caught on tape, the dead man had awoken and was unwrapped from the plastic sheet.

After the burial team returned the man to where they found him, the crowd's cheers mutated into angry shouts as the team appear to be preparing to leave.

Members of the community barricaded the burial team and demanded that the ambulance take the man for treatment.

They then waited for another ambulance to arrive before he was taken away for treatment.

It was, however, unclear whether the man had suffered from Ebola or from a different disease altogether.