Liberia confirmed a second case of Ebola just a day after authorities said they had detected a new case of the deadly virus previously thought to have been eliminated from the country.
“We have two confirmed cases in Liberia,” said Dr Moses Massaquoi, Case Management team leader for Liberia’s Ebola task force.
He did not provide details of the new case.
The body of a 17 year-old boy from Margibi County, a rural area outside of Monrovia, was confirmed to be positive for the virus on Sunday and was buried the same day.
It is not clear how he was infected and the information was not made public until Tuesday.
Massaquoi said that tests were underway to establish whether there are further cases.
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