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Ebola resurfaces in Liberia, claims 1
The Ebola Virus Disease has made a comeback in the West African nation of Liberia, killing one woman on Thursday.
This is coming a few months after the country was declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organisation, and after neigbouring Guinea also recorded a comeback of the dreaded disease, prompting Liberia to close its borders to Guinea.
The new victim was reportedly brought to a clinic in Paynesville, east of the capital Monrovia after falling ill, and was later transferred to a hospital in the city, where she died on Thursday.
A senior health ministry official said, “A young lady in her early thirties died of Ebola yesterday at the Redemption Hospital”.
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Liberia was declared free of active Ebola transmission in January, having passed 42 days, twice the length of the virus’s incubation period – the time between catching the disease and getting its symptoms – without a new case.
While the World Health Organization said this week that West Africa’s Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes an international public health risk, the region has continued to see small flare-ups even after countries received the all-clear.
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