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> New Ebola Case Is Discovered in Liberia
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> MONROVIA, Liberia — More than a month after being declared free of Ebola <http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-24-june-2015>, Liberia <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/liberia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> has experienced a new case of the disease, discovered when the body of 17-year-old boy tested positive for the virus, officials said Tuesday.
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> The World Health Organization <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_health_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org> declared Liberia Ebola <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/ebola/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>-free on May 9, a landmark moment in the country, which has suffered more deaths from the epidemic than any other.
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> Now, the emergence of a new case ends the nation’s Ebola-free status, said Tolbert Nyenswah, Liberia’s deputy minister for health, at a news conference in the capital, Monrovia.
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> The case occurred in a small waterside village just outside Monrovia. The family of the 17-year-old, who died over the weekend, called a burial team that took swabs of the body and sent them to a laboratory. It confirmed that the boy had been infected by the virus.
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> He was safely buried, according to Mr. Nyenswah, adding that the family was being provided with food and other necessities while remaining under observation at home.
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> “The Ebola fight is not over but we must not lose hope,” said Liberia’s newly appointed minister of health, Dr. Bernice Dahn. She contended that the quick response to the case, including the rapid testing and confirmation that the boy had the virus, demonstrated Liberia’s preparedness to deal with the emergence of another outbreak.
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> Liberia has recorded the highest number of deaths of any country during the outbreak, with close to 5,000 lives lost.
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> The newest case is being investigated by the county health team. The number of contacts the boy had, and the source of infection, has not yet been established, Mr. Nyenswah said.
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> An Ebola Treatment Unit has been reactivated, at a time when treatment units built with the help of the United States military have been empty and the Liberian government was beginning to close them.
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> Mr. Nyenswah said that it had not been established whether the infection came from Guinea or Sierra Leone, West African neighbors that are still grappling with small numbers of new Ebola cases.
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> Times Coverage of Ebola: Pulitzer-Winning Articles and More
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> The Times produced more than 400 articles, including about 50 front-page stories from inside the Ebola-afflicted countries themselves. Here is a sample of work.
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> <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/world/africa/ebola-coverage-pulitzer.html>
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