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CLICK HERE - WHO: More than 48 Ebola contacts missing in Sierra Leone

CLICK HERE - IOM - Guinea Revives Border Health Screening to Mitigate Risk of Spread of Ebola

CLICK HERE - Reuters - Fear, doubts obstruct efforts to contain Ebola in Sierra Leone

CLICK HERE - eNews Channel Africa - Second new Ebola case in Sierra Leone

CLICK HERE - Reuters - Sierra Leone confirms new Ebola case, second in less than a week

CLICK HERE - WHO - Ebola Situation Report - 20 January 2016 (13 page .PDF report)

CLICK HERE - Sierra Leone - Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) - Press Release on Missing Ebola Contact

CLICK HERE - WHO - New Ebola case in Sierra Leone. WHO continues to stress risk of more flare-ups

CLICK HERE - The Telegraph - Ebola: Sierra Leone quarantines more than 100 people following new death 

CLICK HERE - Public Notice - Confirmation - Sierra Leone - National Ebola Response Centre (NERC)

CLICK HERE - Facebook - Confirmation - National Ebola Response Centre Sierra Leone

CLICK HERE - The Guardian - Ebola victim in Sierra Leone feared to have exposed others to virus

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Sierra Leone Ebola victim exposed 27 others to disease: NGO report

reuters.com - January 15th 2016 - Umaru Fofana, Edward McAllister, Joe Bavier/Jeremy Gaunt

A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, raising the possibility of further transmission as a regional epidemic appeared nearly over, according to an aid agency report.

The victim, a 22-year-old female student from Tonkolili district named Mariatu Jalloh, became ill at the beginning the year and died on Jan. 12 while living in a house with 22 people. She had sought medical attention at a local hospital but was treated as an outpatient.

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CLICK HERE - Reuters - Dozens feared exposed as Sierra Leone confirms new Ebola death

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Christopher Dye, director of strategy in the WHO director-general’s office, told STAT the young woman traveled significant distances in a series of taxis while ill, coming in contact with people who may be hard to trace. She was cared for at a hospital that didn’t recognize her as an Ebola case, possibly leading to exposure for health workers who treated her.

She was cared for at home, in a dwelling shared by 22 other people. And after her death, her body was given a traditional burial, with family members washing and touching the deceased.

Dye said investigations are underway to see how the woman became infected in a country where transmission of the virus was thought to have stopped several months ago.

http://www.statnews.com/2016/01/15/ebola-case-reported-after-end-of-outbreak/

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"The victim was taken ill when she was on holidays in Bamoi Luma and was taken to Magburaka, where her relatives took her to the government hospital for medical attention," district medical officer Augustine Junisa told reporters.

http://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/sierra-leone-probes-suspected-ebola-death-hours-after-all-clear

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Sierra Leone announced a suspected Ebola deaths Magburaka in Tonkolili District (north). A first sample tested positive Thursday, according to a senior official of Sierra Leone Ministry of Health contacted by telephone by AFP.

The official said on condition of anonymity, he is a student died in an unspecified time. Further analysis should be performed and "the complete results will be made known to the public by Friday," he said, refusing to provide identity age and the establishment where the victim was registered .

The spokesman for the government of Sierra Leone, Abdulai Bayraytay, also reported to AFP the death of a suspect Ebola recorded in Tonkolili District. He also mentioned, without providing details, the extensive investigations to be carried out on site Freetown dispatched a team comprising health officials Sierra Leone, members of the WHO and the US Centers for control of disease prevention ( CDC).

http://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/ebola-un-nouveau-cas-confirm-en-sierra-leone-fait-craindre-un-retour-de-l-pid

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The patient died in the Tonkolli district in northern Sierra Leone after traveling there from Kambia, near the border with Guinea.

http://www.newsweek.com/ebola-returns-new-death-confirmed-sierra-leone-416072

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