New Ebola case confirmed in Liberian capital

Monrovia, Liberia - A 30-year-old woman has died in the Liberian capital after contracting Ebola, officials said Friday, more than two months after the epidemic was declared over in the country. Logo photo courtesy of veryshareimg.com “Lab results confirm a new case of Ebola virus disease in Liberia – a 30-year-old woman who died yesterday afternoon while being transferred to a hospital in the capital Monrovia,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement. A Liberian health ministry official confirmed the case to AFP and said further details would be released later on the woman’s death, with an emergency meeting convened to co-ordinate a response. A resurgence of Ebola in a rural Guinean community has killed seven people in the last few weeks, but it is not known if the new Liberian case is linked. The WHO said one of its teams and local experts were sent to the area near Monrovia where the [...]