Portraits of resilience: west africa's ebola survivors
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The numbers are sobering: More than 10,000 infected so far. At least 5,000 dead. A 70 percent mortality rate. The Ebola outbreak that has crippled three West African countries over the last
six months is not selective. It has stolen the lives of young and old, rich and poor. But what is easy to forget as the devastating stories unfold at a faster and faster clip, is that a
positive diagnosis is not an unequivocal death sentence. Below, images of Liberians who battled the Ebola virus and survived. Their stories are diverse — some lost entire families, others
escaped relatively unscathed — but the thread of resilience runs through them all. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple
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