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> A five-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola in Liberia just days after his mother died of the virus in the second flare-up to hit West Africa in recent weeks, the health ministry said on Sunday.
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> A 30-year-old woman died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the virus. Her death followed a recent flare-up that cost the lives of at least four people in neighbouring Guinea.
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> "A five-year-old boy, the son of the deceased, tested positive early on Sunday morning," Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said.
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> More than 11,300 people have died over the past two years in the world's worst Ebola epidemic, nearly all of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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> While the WHO said this week that West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes an international public health risk, there have been small flare-ups even after countries received the all-clear.
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> Guinea announced new cases on March 17 just hours after Sierra Leone declared an end of active transmission, which briefly meant that West Africa was officially free of Ebola.
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> Liberia subsequently closed its border with Guinea, fearing the potential spread of the outbreak onto its territory.
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> It was not immediately known whether the death in Liberia was linked to the new cases in Guinea.
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> (Reporting by James Harding Giahyue; writing by Edward McAllister; editing by Susan Thomas)