Sierra Leone's Kailahun district records first Ebola case in months


  • World
  • Sunday, 05 Apr 2015

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, threatening progress made to stamp out the disease, officials said on Saturday.

A 9-month-old boy tested positive for Ebola after dying in Kailahun, the district on Guinea's border that recorded Sierra Leone's first Ebola case last May and was for months the epicentre of the crisis.

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