Sierra Leone confirms new Ebola case, second in less than a week | Reuters

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Ebola, Flare-up

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> Sierra Leone confirms new Ebola case, second in less than a week
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> A health worker wearing protective gear stands outside a quarantine zone in a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone December 18, 2014.
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> Sierra Leone confirmed a new case of Ebola on Wednesday, its second in less than a week, marking a further setback in efforts to end a two-year West African epidemic that has killed more than 11,300 people.
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> Health ministry spokesman Sidi Yahyah Tunis described the new patient as a 38-year-old woman, a relative who had helped care for the earlier victim Mariatu Jalloh. Jalloh died from the disease on Jan. 12, and tested positive for Ebola posthumously.
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> (This version of the story refiles to include omitted word "Leone" in headline)
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> (Reporting by Umaru Fofana; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Mark Heinrich <http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=mark.heinrich&>)