Liberia Records Another Ebola Case As 15 Year-Old-Boy Dies From The Virus

A 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus.

He tested positive last week and died late on Monday at a treatment centre near the capital, Monrovia, Francis Kateh, the chief medical officer, said.
His father and brother are being treated for Ebola at the centre.
Liberia has seen more than 10,000 Ebola cases and more than 4,000 deaths since the West Africa outbreak began in 2013.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has twice declared Liberia to be Ebola-free, once in May and again in
The teenage boy's mother and two other siblings have also been admitted to the treatment centre to be monitored, health ministry spokesman Sorbor George said.
Radio and television stations have resumed broadcasting Ebola awareness messages, he says.
Civil society groups have also stepped up a campaign to get volunteers to be vaccinated against the disease in a joint US-Liberia Ebola trial, our reporter says.
On Monday, Liberia said the US had agreed to send two experts to the country to help investigate the sequence of the outbreaks.