Health authorities at a hospital in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, have confirmed that a 30-year-old woman has died of Ebola within the last 24 hours.
FrontPageAfrica has reliably learnt that the deadly Ebola virus outbreak has resurfaced in the country months after Liberia was declared free of the outbreak.
According to BBC, the head of Liberia’s Ebola response team Tolbert Nyenswah said the woman died on arrival at the Redemption Hospital in the densely-populated New Kru Town suburb.
According to that FrontPageAfrica several sources reported that a woman who recently returned from neighbouring Guinea where the virus has flared up again, brought the virus to the community.
Nyenswah clarified that authorities are still trying to determine the source of the latest case.
The outbreak in Guinea has killed seven people, even as the World Health Organization voiced confidence that remaining isolated cases could be contained.
