New Case of Ebola Recorded In Liberia, Months After Clean Bill Of Health

Laboratory results confirm a new case of Ebola virus disease in Liberia yesterday afternoon  after a 30-year-old woman has died in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, after contracting Ebola, officials said yesterday, more than two
months after the epidemic was declared over in the country.

While being transferred to a hospital in the capital, Monrovia,” the World Health Organization
(WHO) said in a statement.

A Liberian health ministry official confirmed the case and said further details would be released later on the woman’s death, with an emergency meeting convened to co-ordinate a response.
A resurgence of Ebola in a rural Guinean community has killed seven people in the past few weeks, but it is not known if the new Liberian case is linked.

The WHO said one of its teams and local experts were sent to the area near Monrovia where the woman was living and to a clinic that treated her.