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    Posted: November 24 2015 at 4:07am

Ebola: 15-year-old Liberian dies after country declared safe in September

More than 4,800 Liberians have died since the outbreak in December 2013
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Nurses carry a victim from Monrovia in January AFP/Getty

A fifteen-year-old boy has become Liberia’s first Ebola victim since the country was triumphantly declared free of the disease for the second time in as many months.

Nathan Gbotoe tested positive for the deadly disease last week in a hospital in Paynesville, a district in the capital Monrovia. By Monday the teenager had succumbed to the illness.

Liberia was one of the worst affected by the latest Ebola outbreak: since December 2013 more than 4,800 people died after contracting the disease in a country that was ill-equipped to combat the huge number of infected.

On 9 May and 3 September experts declared the country Ebola-free, only to have the disease return with the death of a 17-year-old boy and girl in July.

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      Ebola can survive for months in survivors’ semen, eye fluid, breast milk and spinal fluid but medical research has bene unable to explain why symptoms persist.

      Gbotoe’s father and brother are also being treated for Ebola, officials confirmed.

      “The fight against Ebola is not over yet, but we must not lose hope and must continue the practices we used to beat Ebola before. We can win this battle again with your participation and support of the communities,” the Liberian Health Ministry said in a statement.

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      Ebola: New case in Liberia as 10-year-old boy treated months after country declared 'free' of disease

      Guinea was previously the only country with an active Ebola outbreak
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      A 10-year-old boy has been diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia almost three months after the country was declared officially free of the virus.

      The case means that a new outbreak will be formally declared in the West African nation, which has already seen thousands of deaths.

      The boy is being treated at a centre on the outskirts of the capital Monrovia, health officials said. 

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      Liberia discharges 'last Ebola patient from medical care' in March

      Dr Francis Kateh, the chief medical officer and acting head of the Ebola case management system, said the child, who lives in the eastern Paynesville district of Monrovia, was put into isolation late on Thursday.

      “Yes, yes, you can say confirmed,” he said, when asked if the illness was definitely Ebola.

      Liberia was first declared Ebola-free on 9 May this year but a resurgence of the disease in late June affected four people, killing two.

      After the mandatory 42 days with all patients testing negative, the World Health Organisation gave the country the all-clear once again on 3 September and a three-month period of heightened surveillance started.

      Liberia has seen more than 10,600 cases of Ebola since the breakout started in early 2014, with 4,808 people dying of the disease.

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          It is the highest toll of any country affected by the outbreak, which killed almost 4,000 people in neighbouring Sierra Leone and 2,500 more in Guinea.

          Guinea was previously the only country where Ebola was active, with the last-known patient in the world named as Nubia Soumah, a three-week-old baby girl.

          She has now been tested negative twice in a row and if no further cases emerge in the country, the epidemic will be officially over there in January.

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          Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carbon20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 24 2015 at 4:15am
          not sure if this the same boy one 15 the other 10 years old 

          have to wait and see


          with interest ...of course!!!
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