Liberia - Health Authorities confirm 3 new Ebola Cases, 1 Death - All contacts completed 21-day follow-up - dec 16, 2015

[Gert van der Hoek]

New case of Ebola found in Liberia -U.N. official

Source: Reuters - Fri, 20 Nov 2015

ACCRA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.

The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, said the official, who declined to be named.

[Gert van der Hoek]

FEARS OF DEADLY EBOLA VIRUS REPORTEDLY RESURFACE IN LIBERIA

: 20 November 2015

Monrovia - The impact of the deadly Ebola virus which ravaged three neighboring countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea killing thousands of people is still fresh as these countries fight to recover. But Liberia is once again looking to live with the nemesis of the virus as FrontPageAfrica gathered late Thursday that a case has been reported in Monrovia. A source told FPA that a case has been diagnosed but health authorities are treating the situation with care to avoid panic amongst the citizenry and the international community.

As FrontPageAfrica made further efforts through numerous calls to health authorities including Deputy Minister Tolbert Nyeswah but to no avail, a member of the Liberian Senate, Grand Bassa County Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence posted on the social media that a kid from the Paynesville suburb of Monrovia has contracted the deadly virus.

According to the senator, the Ebola afflicted kid lives in Duport Road Paynesville City. “The family lives in Duport road and an entire school will have to be quarantined,” she says. “Thanks to the medical team for being very aggressive, they are moving very fast as of tonight with contact tracing etc to put the situation under control.”

FrontPageAfrica

[Gert van der Hoek]

MONROVIA, Liberia — Nov 20, 2015,

Health authorities are reporting one confirmed Ebola case, a 10-year boy who is currently being attended to at the treatment center on the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital.

Liberia was first declared Ebola-free on May 9; but there was a resurgence of the disease in late June affecting four people, two of whom died. The country was again declared Ebola-free on Sept. 3 by the World Health Organization.

Chief Medical Officer and acting head of the Ebola Case Management System, Dr. Francis Kateh, told The Associated Press on Friday the boy, a resident of the eastern Paynesville district of Monrovia, was taken to the Ebola treatment unit late Thursday.

"Yes, yes, you can say confirmed," he said, when asked if the case has been confirmed to be Ebola.