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Death in Northern Sierra Leone
A teenage girl in a northern Sierra Leone district died of Ebola yesterday, marking the first death from the virus in the area in nearly 6 months.
Her death prompted the authorities to quarantine nearly 700 people in the village of Robuya, and health workers are investigating how the teenager got infected. While sexual transmission is a possibility, Emmanuel Conteh, head of the Ebola Response Centre for the district of Bombali in northern Sierra Leone, said, "We are baffled by that possibility because the survivor in question was discharged in March, way beyond the 90-day period within which sexual transmission is said to be possible.”
A high risk also remains in the nearby Kambia district, where nearly 1,000 people are still quarantined following the death of a woman in that area, according to Pallo Conteh, the head of Sierra Leone's Ebola response.
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New Ebola death in SLeone dims optimism for epidemic's end
Freetown (AFP) Sept 14, 2015 - A 16-year-old girl in Sierra Leone has died from Ebola, dealing a blow to optimism that the west African country has finally turned the page on the devastating epidemic. The teenager died Sunday in the city of Makeni, in a northern province that had not recorded a single case of the deadly virus in nearly six months, officials said. Her death came some two weeks after a 67-year-old food ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_Ebola_death_in_SLeone_dims_optimism_for_epidemics_end_999.html
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