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Published April 05th 2015
11:02am
Ebola found in infant who died in Sierra Leone
Region where death occurred has not recorded any cases of the virus in nearly four months
A nine-month-old boy who died last week in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, the first known infection by the deadly virus in the African state in more than three months.
Winnie Romeril, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation (WHO), said local and foreign experts had been dispatched to investigate the case after the positive test result.
The infant died in Kailahun, the district on Guinea's border that recorded Sierra Leone's first Ebola case last May and was for months the focal point of the epidemic...
Published April 05th 2015
11:02am
Ebola found in infant who died in Sierra Leone
Region where death occurred has not recorded any cases of the virus in nearly four months
A nine-month-old boy who died last week in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, the first known infection by the deadly virus in the African state in more than three months.
Winnie Romeril, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation (WHO), said local and foreign experts had been dispatched to investigate the case after the positive test result.
The infant died in Kailahun, the district on Guinea's border that recorded Sierra Leone's first Ebola case last May and was for months the focal point of the epidemic...
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