Liberia confirms fresh Ebola cases

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Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Liberia less than three months after the west-African country was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

The three patients include a 10-year-old boy from Paynesville, a suburb of the capital Monrovia.

All people with the symptom have been isolated, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told the BBC.

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