Ebola crisis: Liberia boy dies after fresh case occurs
Barely a few months ago when the World health organisation declared the Liberian nation as been Ebola free, fresh cases are beginning to develop as a teenage boy is reported to have died from the deadly Ebola virus disease.
According to reports, the 15 years old was said to have been tested positive with the virus last week but eventually died at a treatment clinic centre close to the capital city Monrovia on Monday, Francis keteh the chief medical officer said.
Meanwhile, both the parents and siblings of the victim are been placed under close watch and treated subsequently following the demise of their loved one as confirmed by the spokesman of the health ministry Sorbor George.
Liberia has seen more than 10,000 Ebola cases and more than 4,000 deaths since the West Africa outbreak began in 2013.
He told the BBC that eight healthcare workers "who are at high risk because they came in direct contact with the boy" were also under surveillance.
Similarly, BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia says nearly 160 people are now being monitored since the new cases were confirmed last week as various media houses are now beginning to reiterates the awareness once again as civil society groups are getting volunteers to be vaccinated against this deadly disease in a joint US-Liberia Ebola trial, he continued.
On Monday, Liberia said the US had agreed to send two experts to the country to help investigate the sequence of the outbreaks.
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