The Survivors: Meet 7 Liberians who contracted and recovered from Ebola Virus

 

 The Ebola epidemic has a 70 percent mortality rate, according to the World Health Organization, but leaves survivors immune to the strain that sickened them. See portraits of those who survived the disease in Liberia. (Getty)Emergency room doctor  and Ebola survivor Philip Ireland pictured above stands outside the JFK Hospital where he works on October 13, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Ireland spent 21 days recovering from the disease in July.

 

Ebola survivor James Mulbah, 2, stands with his mother, Tamah Mulbah, 28, who also recovered from Ebola in the low-risk section of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center after survivors' meeting on October 16, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia

 

Ebola survivor Abrahim Quota, 5, stands outside the JFK Ebola treatment center after recovering from the disease on October 13, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. He had arrived at the treatment center 10 days before with his parents, who both died there from the virus. The Ministry of Health was to deliver him home after his release to live with relatives.

 

Ebola survivor John Massani, 27, stands in the low-risk section of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center on October 16, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The construction worker said that Ebola killed 6 members of his extended family and he thinks he contracted the disease while caring for a sick relative. 

 

Ebola survivor Peters Roberts, 22, stands in the low-risk section of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center after a survivors' meeting on October 16, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The 11th grade student said that he lost a sister, uncle and cousin to Ebola and he believes he caught the disease while caring for his uncle

 

Ebola survivor Mohammed Bah, 39, stands at the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center after meeting with fellow survivors on October 16, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. Bah, who works as a driver, said he lost his wife, mother, father and sister to Ebola. 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

Ebola survivors Mark Jerry, 30, (R), and Zaizay Mulbah, 34, stand together before their shifts as nurse's assistants at the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center on October 12, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. Jerry was a money changer and Mulbah a delivery driver before they caught the disease and went to the MSF center where they recovered. MSF hired them afterwards to counsel and comfort others stricken by the disease.