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Exposure Concerns Grow in Liberia After Diagnosis of First Ebola Case in Weeks
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NEW YORK TIMES by Sheri Fink March 25, 2015
Worries have widened in recent days over the number of people in Liberia who may have been exposed to the country’s first Ebola case in more than two weeks, a street vendor who lived in a one-bathroom house shared with 52 others in a Monrovia suburb and who had sold food at a school where more than 1,900 students are enrolled.
The patient, identified as Ruth Tugbah, 44, had been in contact with a range of people, including her children and a pastor who had sought to comfort her, after she developed a fever and was contagious, aid workers said Tuesday.
Ms. Tugbah received a diagnosis of Ebola on Friday, ending a short-lived period of optimism that Liberia would be the first of three afflicted West African countries to emerge from the worst epidemic of the deadly virus in history....
On Tuesday the patient’s 18-year-old daughter, Beneta Kun, developed a headache and weakness and was taken to an Ebola treatment unit for testing, aid workers in Liberia reported.
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Ruth Tugbah, left, and her daughter, Beneta Kun. Ms. Tugbah received a diagnosis of Ebola on Friday; Ms. Kun has been hospitalized. Credit Maggie Muldoon/More Than Me
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Liberia says first Ebola patient in a month is isolated case
AFP March 25, 2015
Monrovia - A Liberian woman who last week became the country's first Ebola patient in more than one month has not passed on the infection to anyone else, a senior official said Wednesday."The patient is in a stable condition. She is responding to treatment," said Francis Karteh, the head of Liberia's Ebola Incident Management Team.
"She had contact with more than 50 people. We have been following these people and they are all home with no sign of Ebola yet."
In a boost to Liberia's efforts, the frontline Doctors Without Borders (MSF) aid agency announced it was stopping its work at a 250-bed Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia, the largest in the country, "due to the decreased number of Ebola cases".
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http://news.yahoo.com/liberia-says-first-ebola-patient-month-isolated-case-144722606.html;_ylt=AwrBJR6OPRRVHgwA7jzQtDMD