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The Ebola
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The 16-year-old girl diagnosed
with Ebola in northern Sierra Leone's Bomabli district has died, the
authorities say. This is the first confirmed death from the virus
in the district for nearly six months.
Initial
suspicions are that Kadiatu Thullah died after having sex with a survivor, but
there is no confirmation of this. The
survivor was discharged after being treated for Ebola in March, according to Dr
Emmnauel Conteh, who is spearheading medical care for patients in Bombali.
He
said 690 people in the entire village of Robuya, just outside Makeni city, had
been quarantined with seven "high risk contacts" taken to a treatment
unit.
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.
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