Five-year-old becomes latest Ebola victim in Liberia

A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in Liberia just months after the country has been declared free of the disease. 

Liberia's Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said the five-year-old son of a 30-year-old woman who died last Thursday has now been taken to a treatment centre in Monrovia. 

Authorities are now checking everyone the woman was in contact with and 10 health care workers from the hospital where the woman was treated. 

The woman, had traveled with three of her children.   


SOURCE: ALJAZEERA