10-year-old reintroduces Ebola to Liberia

The 10-year-old boy is now being attended to at a treatment center in the area. All six of the boy’s family members, along with others who had high-risk contact are being cared for at an Ebola treatment unit in Paynesville.

The first of the new patients was a 10-year-old boy who lived with his parents and three siblings in Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, said Minister of Health Minister Bernice Dahn. By early June 2014, the Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever recorded, but World Health Organization resisted sounding the worldwide alarm until August, a delay that a few argue may have cost lives.

On September 3, 2015 declaration of making Liberia to be free of the virus seem to be a setback as a result of this latest development, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.

The boy had no history of contact with an Ebola survivor or victim, he said.

Health workers were also seen at the boy’s school, giving out informational leaflets to students, spraying surfaces, setting up hand wash stations and Living in Christ worldwide Ministry School.

A woman in Freetown, Sierra Leone, celebrates with others as the country is declared Ebola-free on November 7.

“That means that all those who survived, need to be helped to maintain hygiene, and also if they are meant to practice safe sex, they need proper counselling and follow-up testing”, he said.

“The new cases in Liberia show both the continuing threat of sporadic cases, and the readiness of the country, which rapidly diagnosed and isolated them”, Dr Frieden said.

“His father and mother had transient illnesses in the last few weeks, so obviously that could be one of the lines of transmission”, Aylward continued.

More than 11,000 people have been killed by the outbreak in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.