survivor

The ultimate social experiment? This group of friends recreates 'Survivor' every year

5:00am May 31, 2025

As 'Survivor' celebrates 25 years, this group of friends recreate their own version of the reality TV show — complete with cutthroat competition and brutal blindsides.

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Survivor Maryland kicks off its 12th season with a challenge where participants' arms are tied to a plastic cup of water that's resting on the top of a ledge. One wrong move and the cup (and its contents) will tumble.

It's Survivor: College Edition, As Students Create Their Own Reality Shows

2:26pm February 17, 2019

by Lindsey Feingold

College students across the country have re-created campus versions of CBS' Survivor — all while juggling classes and homework. The challenges are popular online and have earned a devoted following.

Ebola Survivor: Faith And Oral Rehydration Salts Got Her Through

6:53pm December 30, 2014

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

It was "the worst news that I can hear in my life," says Dr. Ada Igonoh. She had Ebola. Her husband said she looked like a zombie. She wondered: "What's the cure for a disease that has no cure?"

Dr. Ian Crozier stands with a group of survivors and a nurse at the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. He contracted Ebola and was on the brink of death, but he survived.

Ebola Survivor: The Best Word For The Virus Is 'Aggression'

11:10am December 27, 2014

by Jason Beaubien

Dr. Ian Crozier was Emory University Hospital's sickest Ebola patient; his kidneys failed and he was on life support. He made a miraculous recovery and says the illness made him a better physician.

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Dr. Senga Omeonga pictured outside St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. Omeonga moved to Liberia from DRC in 2011. He contracted Ebola but survived it.

Ebola Survivor: 'You Feel Like ... Maybe ... A Ghost'

5:06pm December 26, 2014

by Didrik Schanche

Outside St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital in Liberia, Dr. Senga Omeonga muses over the weeks he spent at an Ebola ward — not as a doctor, but as a patient. He says the experience was life-changing.

After losing most of his family to Ebola, health worker Alexander Kollie (right) is building a new life with son Kollie James, the 1,000th survivor of the disease to be cared for by Doctors Without Borders.

My Son Is Doctors Without Borders' 1,000th Ebola Survivor

7:19pm October 21, 2014

by Alexander Kollie

Liberian health worker Alexander Kollie lost his wife, daughters and brother to Ebola. Then his son tested positive for the disease. He survived, and now father and son are building a new life.

Patients recovering from Ebola at the Kenema treatment center must remain behind white plastic fencing until they are officially discharged.

The Ebola Survivor Who Works In An Ebola Ward

9:50pm September 28, 2014

by Anders Kelto

When the 23-year-old Sierra Leonean tells patients to follow their doctors' orders and to keep fighting, they really listen.

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Bendu Borlay, 21 and an Ebola survivor, is caring for an infant whose mother died of the disease.

Grieving But Grateful, Ebola Survivors In Liberia Give Back

11:12am September 26, 2014

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

After living through their own nightmares, Ebola survivors are still mourning the loss of their loved ones. But they're giving back by working at the treatment centers and caring for children.

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