Liberia: ‘Liberia Not Ebola Free’ – Renewed Fear of Deadly Virus Presence
AllAfrica.com
6 June 2014
Authorities at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare have disclosed that Liberia remains vulnerable to the deadly Ebola virus that has already taken the lives of six persons.
Addressing journalists Thursday at the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism regular press briefing in Monrovia, Liberia’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Bernice Dahn revealed that though no new case of Ebola has been confirmed as of June 4, 2014, Liberia is not completely free from the Ebola virus because the disease continues to affect neighboring countries in the Mano river Union basin.
Said Dr. Dahn: “Is the country Ebola free? No. While it is true that the last time we confirmed or had a suspected case was April 4th, Sierra Leone announced an outbreak; I think the last week in May.”
“The Situation in Guinea is still fragile and these cases are on the border with Liberia. We all know that there are families living across the border, they move across the border to make farms and they come across to sleep. And so people are moving across the border back and forth so we cannot say we are free.”
Dr. Dahn said as a result of the outbreak of the virus in neighboring Sierra Leone, with six suspected deaths and 50 suspected and confirmed cases reported, the Ministry of Health is currently following up on 11 persons in Foya, Lofa County, who may have come in contact with a suspected person that arrived from Sierra Leone and died in Foya. According to Dr. Dahn, the dead body was however taken back to Sierra Leone for burial.
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