Ebola's fresh case surface in Liberia

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Channel: Oneindia News · 2015 · News & Politics

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A Liberian has died of Ebola in the first recorded case since the country at the heart of an epidemic was declared free of the virus on May 9, Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said today. The body of a 17-year-old tested positive for Ebola in Margibi County, the deputy minister said. Margibi is a rural area close to the capital Monrovia, and is home to the country's main international airport. Around 43 per cent of those deaths were in Liberia, where the outbreak peaked between last August and October with hundreds of cases a week.

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