A piece has die of Ebola more than a month after Liberia was declared free of Ebola   virus transmission . Health official have confirmed that the corpse of a 17 - year - old homo tested positivistic for the disease .

TheWorld Health Organization(WHO ) declare Liberia liberal of the disease   on   May 9 2015 as the country went 42 days without a case , which the WHO describe as a " monumental accomplishment . " This novel case ends the country ’s Ebola - free status .

Tolbert Nyenswah , the head of Liberia ’s Ebola response , state the Associated Press ( AP ) that this new case is n’t a daze for health official .

" We have said over and over again there was possibility that there could be a revivification of the virus in Liberia , " Nyenswah said . " But our surveillance team , our capability is very potent . "

" The only complication is that the person died before we quiz the body as part of our surveillance organization . "

Liberia was the hard stumble country , accounting for 43 % of deaths in last twelvemonth ’s Ebola outbreak in West Africa , which killed over 11,100 people . Ebola has continued to linger in neighbour Sierra Leone and Guinea .

" There is no need to panic . The remains has been buried and our contact lens tracing has started work , " Nyenswah toldReuters .

official are unreadable as to how the victim shorten the virus   but the instance is   being examine . He died in Nedowein , a small town near the country ’s international airdrome . The town is far from the perimeter with Guinea or Sierra Leone . Health authorization are investigating whether the case could be yoke to travel .

BBC ’s health editor Michelle Robertssaysthe case is " deep worrying " and inspire Liberians to " remain wakeful if they are to banish Ebola for good . "

" This should have been expected because as long as there is Ebola in the region no one country can be safe . Liberia is vulnerable because of Guinea and Sierra Leone , " Fatoumata Lejeune - Kaba , spokeswoman for the U.N. Ebola reply charge , told Reuters .

She aver that   the new case will test the country ’s ability to respond effectively and within a timely manner , particularly as the presence of the external community has wane since the height of the outbreak .

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