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The Survivors: Portraits Of Liberians Who Recovered From Ebola - Contrarie
Ebola is ravaging Liberia, the country counts for more than half the Ebola deaths with a total of 2,458 out of the 4,500 across Western Africa. While the media has been focusing on the deaths generated by the outbreak, there has been very little reporting about survivors of the terrible disease. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer John Moore visited an Ebola treatment center in Paynesville, Liberia and took photographs of survivors as they spoke about the brothers, sisters, husbands and wives they lost to the disease. Mohammed Bah, 39 Ebola survivor Mohammed Bah stands at the MSF Ebola treatment center after meeting with fellow survivors on October 16 in Paynesville, Liberia. Bah, who works as a driver, said he lost his wife, mother, father and sister to Ebola. The disease leaves survivors immune to the strain that sicked them. He said he spent a week at the MSF center recovering from the disease. Like many other Ebola survivors, he said that the stigma of having had Ebola as been difficult. ‘I’ve been rejected by everyone. I’m alone with my two children,’ he said. Jeremra Cooper, 16 Ebola survivor Jeremra Cooper wipes his face from the heat while in the low-risk section of the [...]