Ebola in sierra leone
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More than 11,300 people died during the worst outbreak of the highly contagious disease, which mainly affected Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone from 2013 to...
The latest case was detected in Macenta prefecture, about 200 kilometres from the village of Korokpara.
Four people were tested and two of them were found to have Ebola.
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.
Dr. Abdourahmane Bathily said the 68 contacts had emerged from quarantine at midnight on Saturday morning.
Residents of Sierra Leone held a candlelit vigil and celebrations to mark the end of an Ebola epidemic.
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 woman died five days after Sierra Leone started countdown to being declared Ebola free.
Samoa had refused to issue visas to the Sierra Leone team due to the fear of the Ebola virus in west Africa.
Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer says two samples tested in Kambia had tested positive for Ebola.
Medical staff celebrated and Ebola survivors held up signs of praise to Koroma at the treatment centre.
'The world is on the brink of Ebola vaccine breakthrough'
The results were described as “remarkable” and “game changing” by global health specialists.
The MSF said despite the progress made so far efforts to completely eliminate the virus must continue.