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The Ebola outbreak led to more than 11,000 deaths.
How the latest Ebola case was transmitted to Nathan Groote, the 15-year-old from the Monrovia neighborhood of Paynesville, remains a mystery.
Amid widespread and accelerating globalization, the report calls on world leaders to build an effective system of global health governance to deal with future outbreaks that potentially threaten all countries.
Liberia, which along with Guinea and Sierra Leone suffered worst from the deadly outbreak, was declared Ebola-free back in September, a period of freedom that lasted until last week, when new cases were announced.
The 15-year-old boy died Monday night, said Dr. Francis Kateh, chief medical officer and acting head of Liberia’s Ebola Case Management System.
They include the creation of a United Nations Security Council health committee to expedite political attention to health issues, the publishing of a list of countries that are quick to share information and those that delay reporting, and the establishment of a global fund to finance and accelerate the development of outbreak-relevant drugs and treatment. Liberian health officials have placed 153 people under surveillance, including 22 nurses and 6 patients from a hospital in Monrovia, the capital, according to Liberian health authorities.
Liberia said it requested the help of two experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S.to determine the cause of the new cases, the AP reported.
Kateh said an additional 25 health workers are being observed for symptoms of Ebola, with 10 of them having been identified as high-risk for the disease.
Reviewing the global response to the epidemic, which swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the panel said such failures should not be allowed to happen again, and major reform is urgently needed to prevent future pandemics. The boy was the first Ebola patient in the country since it was declared Ebola-free for a second time in September.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, Liberia has registered more than 10,600 cases and more than 4,800 deaths, according to a World Health Organization situation report published last week.
Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free on November 7, while Guinea has begun a 42-day countdown toward being declared free of Ebola transmission.
