Friday 15 January 2016

Ebola virus: New case emerges in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone officials have confirmed a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.
The country was declared free of the virus on 7 November, and the region as a whole was cleared when Liberia was pronounced Ebola free on Thursday.
Tests on a person who died in northern Sierra Leone proved positive, an Ebola test centre spokesman reports.The Sierra Leone death occurred earlier this week.

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