New Ebola case found in Liberia

This is the second time Ebola is resurfacing in Liberia after the country was declared free of the virus.

The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, said the official, who declined to be named.

Francis Kateh, has announced one new case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Monrovia.

According to the latest toll given by World Health Organization, the epidemic that started in December 2013 has left more than 11,300 dead, mainly in the west African states of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, out of nearly 29,000 cases. The country was again declared to be free of Ebola in September.

Fear of the virus transformed the three countries and hampered efforts in Sierra Leone and Liberia to recover from civil wars.

Liberia was first declared Ebola-free on May 9; but there was a resurgence of the disease in late June affecting four people, two of whom died.

The 42-day countdown to being Ebola-free begins after the last infected person tests negative twice, with the tests 48 hours apart.