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Monrovia, Liberia

The Survivors: Portraits of Liberians who recovered

The Survivors: Portraits Of Liberians Who Recovere
Nancy Paye, 20, who sells dry goods in an outdoor market, said she likely contracted Ebola from a friend, who died in her care.
John Moore / Getty Images

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The Ebola virus has a 70 percent mortality rate, according to the World Health Organization. And, the current outbreak has killed more than 4,400 people in West Africa.

However, there are survivors and those individuals develop immunity to the strain that sickened them. Dr. Kent Brantly, perhaps the most well known Ebola survivor, has donated the plasma in his blood to three patients in the last month.

Getty photographer John Moore created a collection of portraits of Ebola survivors outside several treatment centers in or near Monrovia, Liberia. Survivors said they often face a difficult stigma of having had Ebola. "Nobody will even let me draw water from the community well," said one woman.

• Full Ebola coverage from MPR News

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The Survivors: Portraits Of Liberians Who Recovere
Student Jeremra Cooper, 16, said he lost six family members to Ebola before coming down sick with the virus himself. Cooper, who attends eighth grade, spent a month at a treatment center.
John Moore / Getty Images
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The Survivors: Portraits Of Liberians Who Recovere
Nancy Paye, 20, who sells dry goods in an outdoor market, said she likely contracted Ebola from a friend, who died in her care.
John Moore / Getty Images
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The Survivors: Portraits Of Liberians Who Recovere
Midwife Ami Subah, 39, thinks she caught Ebola when she delivered a baby boy from a sick mother. The boy, she said, survived, but the mother died. "Nobody will even let me draw water from the community well," she said.
John Moore / Getty Images