A thirty-year-old woman has died from the virus in Liberia. The World Health Organization sent a team there.
The Ebola epidemic is not over in West Africa. “There is a new case of Ebola in Monrovia,” the capital of Liberia, said a spokesperson for the Liberian health ministry. A woman in her thirties has died after being transferred to a hospital in Monrovia. After the seven victims recorded in Guinea since the beginning of the year, it is a new blow for the fight against the disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announces that it has sent a team to the region of origin of the young woman, with the help of the Liberian health authorities. An investigation is carried out in her community and in the clinic where she had been treated in order to identify the people with whom she could have come into contact, so that they can be taken care of.
“This case marks the start of the third outbreak of Ebola since the end of the epidemic announced on May 9, 2015,” said the WHO in its press release. The previous one ended on January 14, 2016 ”
Effective measures
Despite the lifting by last Tuesday of the state of global health emergency, the organization continues to recall the risk of resurgence and warnings in countries at risk, exposed due to the persistence of the virus in survivors in bodily fluids, such as semen.
“As expected, new outbreaks of Ebola continue to emerge due to reintroduction of the virus, the Ebola Emergency Committee recalled Tuesday. Twelve outbreaks were detected. The last, dating from March 17, 2016 in Guinea, is still active. “
WHO estimates that Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone now had the capacities to manage the detection and response to these outbreaks, building on the effectiveness of the measures that these three countries had been able to take during the appearance of new cases.
Since the start of the epidemic at the end of 2013, the Ebola virus has affected 28,646 people, and killed 11,323 (WHO figures).
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