Oh No! Ebola resurfaces in Sierra Leone
Just hours after the World Health Organisation declared the West African region free of the Ebola virus, another death from the viral disease has been confirmed.
Tests on a person who died in northern Sierra Leone proved positive, the BBC reports.
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The patient who died early in the week, had travelled from Kambia, close to the border with Guinea, to the Tonkolili district north of Sierra Leone.
Following the result of the tests, health officials are urgently seeking those who had come into contact with the victim.
About 4,000 people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone which was declared Ebola-free in November 2015.
