Sierra Leone’s Kailahun district records first Ebola case in months
By Umaru Fofana 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. Kailahun went from recording up to 80 infections per week in June to zero cases at the end of last year. Alex Bonapha, the Kailahun district council chairman, said it was not clear how the boy may have contracted Ebola as both his parents were healthy.
