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But health officials are wary, because the virus has returned before after apparently having been eliminated.

Cassius Kollie is one of four people being treated for Ebola at a specialised treatment unit in the ELWA hospital in Monrovia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said the genetic sequence of the virus sampled from the 17-year-old victim at the centre of the first cases for three months did not match variants circulating in neighbouring Guinea or Sierra Leone.

More than 11,200 people have died from Ebola since an epidemic broke out in December 2013 in neighbouring Guinea.

Speaking at the UN Secretary General’s global Conference on Ebola Recovery in New York, Justine Greening announced a new 2 year package to support the government of Sierra Leone in its plan to recover from the outbreak.

Ebola re-emerged in Liberia last week, almost two months after it was declared free of the virus, while neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone are still struggling to eliminate it.

Surprisingly, the rapid test also detected some cases that the lab test did not pick up. In the early stages the symptoms – chest pain, cough, nausea – can look like many other illnesses, making it very hard for doctors to triage – to determine who should be...

Abbas Dulleh-AP Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on June 30, 2015.

“It is under control, we buried the corpse safely and our team will beef up work in the surrounding areas”, Mr. Nyenswah said. More people are expected to be identified as potentially at risk.

The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) warns of the need to maintain active surveillance in West Africa as new Ebola cases resurface in Liberia, almost two months into the country being declared free of the virus.