A woman in Liberia has died of Ebola, months after the epidemic was declared over in the country, health officials say.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old woman passed away in a hospital in a densely-populated area of the capital, Monrovia.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared that Liberia was free of Ebola in January, but there have been small flare-ups of the disease in the region.<\/p>\n
In neighbouring Guinea, several cases have been identified in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
More than 11,300 people died over the past two years in the world’s worst Ebola epidemic, almost all of them in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.<\/p>\n
The infected woman was brought to a clinic in Paynesville, just east of Monrovia, after falling ill, officials said. She was later transferred to a hospital in the capital, but died on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In January, the WHO declared the “end of active transmission” in Liberia after 42 days without a new case.<\/p>\n
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