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Dr. Francis Kateh, Deputy Incident Manager of the Incident Management
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The acting head of Liberia's Ebola Case Management Team says
that two new cases of Ebola have emerged from the same community where the
virus resurged the other week.
Associated Press reports Dr. Francis Kateh said
Thursday that the number of confirmed Ebola cases has risen to five, including
the 17-year-old teen who died of the disease on June 28. He said the newest
patients, a boy and a girl, were brought to a treatment center Wednesday from
the same Nedowein community where the teen died, some 30 miles (48 kilometers)
outside the capital, Monrovia.
Dr. Kateh said all four
confirmed patients are admitted at a treatment center near Monrovia.
He said 120 people have
been quarantined, and that 14 who are considered active "high risk"
contacts are being monitored.
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