A new case of the deadly Ebola virus has emerged in Liberia, which was declared Ebola-free on September, the U.N. health agency confirmed Friday. "There is one confirmed case," World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said in Geneva, without providing further details. In Monrovia, Liberia's chief medical officer, Doctor Francis Kateh, said a 10-year-old boy from the eastern Paynesville district of the capital was taken to an Ebola treatment unit outside the city late Thursday. The West African country, where thousands died at the height of the epidemic last year, was first declared Ebola-free in May, only to see the hemorrhagic fever resurface six weeks later. The country was again declared Ebola-free on September 3 by the WHO. Friday's news comes days after it was announced that the last known Ebola case in Guinea—a three-week-old girl—had recovered. Guinea must wait 42 days with no new cases before being declared Ebola-free. Sierra Leone was declared free of the virus earlier this month. According to the latest WHO figures, the epidemic that began in late 2013 killed more than 11,300—virtually all in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone—out of nearly 29,000 cases. Liberia registered more than 10,600 cases and 4,800 deaths.
