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Following the re-emergence of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD in Sierra Leone, 690 persons have been quarantined.
Health authorities in northern Sierra Leone had to quarantine the individuals after a 16-year-old girl died of Ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission. Announcing the development, Emmanuel Conteh, head of the Ebola Response Centre for the district of Bombali in northern Sierra Leone, ''some 690 people in the village of Robuya where Kadiatu lived would be isolated for three weeks''.
''Seven of her primary contacts have been taken to the Ebola treatment unit. Three patients who came into contact with the girl at another health facility have also been taken to the treatment unit''.
The teenage girl, Kadiatu Thullah, died on Sunday at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit, authorities said.
Conteh said health workers were investigating how the teenager got infected, since she had not traveled outside the village in years. Initial suspicions are that she had sex with an Ebola survivor. “We are baffled by that possibility because the survivor in question was discharged in March, way beyond the 90-day period within which sexual transmission is possible,” he added.
Health authorities in northern Sierra Leone had to quarantine the individuals after a 16-year-old girl died of Ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission. Announcing the development, Emmanuel Conteh, head of the Ebola Response Centre for the district of Bombali in northern Sierra Leone, ''some 690 people in the village of Robuya where Kadiatu lived would be isolated for three weeks''.
''Seven of her primary contacts have been taken to the Ebola treatment unit. Three patients who came into contact with the girl at another health facility have also been taken to the treatment unit''.
The teenage girl, Kadiatu Thullah, died on Sunday at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit, authorities said.
Conteh said health workers were investigating how the teenager got infected, since she had not traveled outside the village in years. Initial suspicions are that she had sex with an Ebola survivor. “We are baffled by that possibility because the survivor in question was discharged in March, way beyond the 90-day period within which sexual transmission is possible,” he added.
