MONROVIA, Liberia: A Liberian health official says a second case of Ebola has been confirmed in the West African country months after it was declared free from transmissions.
Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said Sunday the 5-year-old son of the 30-year-old woman who died Thursday from Ebola has been taken to a Monrovia treatment center, adding that contact tracing has intensified and 10 health care workers are also under voluntary precautionary observation.
He said they are investigating how she got to Monrovia with three of her children, but there are strong indications that the woman came from Guinea, with no symptoms of Ebola, when the border was closed.
Ebola has killed more than 11,300 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, since the December 2013 outbreak.
AP
