Ebola kills teenager in Liberia 7 weeks after WHO declared Liberia Ebola free
Published on Tue, 06/30/2015 - 11:01(By Bonny Apunyu)
Only seven weeks after the World Health Organization(WHO) declared Liberia free of Ebola,a 17-year-old boy has died from the deadly virus, VOA reported Tuesday saying Liberian afficials are trying to determine how the boy contracted the illness.
VOA spoke with Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia’s Ebola response. According Nyenswah, the teenager died June 24 and was given a safe burial the next day.