Ebola in liberia
Boy tests positive for Ebola in latest Liberia flare-up
The child's mother died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the virus.
The latest case was detected in Macenta prefecture, about 200 kilometres from the village of Korokpara.
Two Liberian Red Cross officials were suspended in November, accused of misusing $1.8 million in donor funds.
The new patient is a relative who had helped care for the earlier victim, Mariatu Jalloh.
The country was declared free of the virus late last year, and the region as a whole cleared yesterday.
Guinea was declared free of Ebola on Tuesday after more than 2,500 people died from the virus.
Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free in November while Guinea’s last known case recovered two weeks ago.
Liberia has placed under surveillance 153 people who may have come into contact with the boy.
The three were infected in Forecariah in western Guinea from the family of a woman who died of Ebola.
Doctors say handful of mystery deaths among discharged patients may also be types of Ebola relapses.
The republic was declared Ebola-free in May but a fresh cluster of cases appeared.
Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer says two samples tested in Kambia had tested positive for Ebola.
Ebola has killed more than 11,200 people in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The results were described as “remarkable” and “game changing” by global health specialists.
The worst recorded outbreak of Ebola has already killed more than 11,200 people across West Africa.
WHO said that donors had pledged $1.4 billion of an estimated $2.1 billion required by the three countries.
Response teams were sent to Masambio on Thursday to collect samples for testing.
The Ebola epidemic was detected in Guinea over a year ago and has since killed more than 11,000 people.
A total of 11,005 people have died from Ebola in the three West African neighbours since the outbreak.