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Dr. Francis
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Liberia has placed 153
people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the
capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus,
health officials said. Three Ebola cases emerged in Liberia on Friday. The first of
the new patients was a 15-year-old boy called Nathan Gbotoe from Paynesville, a
suburb east of the capital Monrovia. Two other family members have since been
confirmed as positive and they are all hospitalized.
"We
have three confirmed cases and have listed 153 contacts, and we have labelled
them as high, medium and low in terms of the risk," Liberia's Chief
Medical Officer Dr. Francis Kateh told Reuters late on Saturday.
