Hundreds quarantined as Ebola returns to north Sierra Leone district

9/15/2015 1:55:34 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula)A whole village amounting to almost 1000 people have been quarantined in the latest twist in Sierra Leone`s fight against the Ebola (APA)

FREETOWN: Health authorities quarantined hundreds of people in northern Sierra Leone on Monday after a 16-year-old girl died of Ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission the first confirmed death from the virus in the district for nearly six months.

Sierra Leone celebrated last month when it discharged the last remaining Ebola patient from its treatment centres. But since then a new spate of cases has erupted leaving two dead and five people in treatment.

The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed more than 11000 people in Sierra Leone Guinea and neighbouring Liberia since it began in December 2013.

Liberia was declared Ebola-free this month but growing evidence that the virus may survive longer than previously thought in sperm has raised fears of fresh outbreaks.

The teenage girl Kadiatu Thullah died on Sunday at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit authorities said.

Emmanuel Conteh head of the Ebola Response Centre for the district of Bombali in northern Sierra Leone said that some 690 people in the village of Robuya where Kadiatu lived would be isolated for three weeks.

Reuters

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