--- title: Ebola Virus Resurfaces in Liberia After 2 Months of Being Ebola-Free description: Liberia has reported its second case of Ebola on Tuesday after seven weeks of being declared Ebola-free. canonical: https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-01T14:32:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:08.859Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Virus Resurfaces in Liberia After 2 Months of Being Ebola-Free og:description: Liberia has reported its second case of Ebola on Tuesday after seven weeks of being declared Ebola-free. og:url: https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d39735f38e9144a/6988594ce53aba828c4de6f3/liberia-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Liberia Ebola West Africa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Virus Resurfaces in Liberia After 2 Months of Being Ebola-Free twitter:description: Liberia has reported its second case of Ebola on Tuesday after seven weeks of being declared Ebola-free. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d39735f38e9144a/6988594ce53aba828c4de6f3/liberia-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ebola Cases Resurface in Liberia After 2 Months of Being Ebola-Free > Sponsored content. 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Watch One Man’s Story of Surviving Ebola_ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jul 1, 2015 2:32 PM UTC  Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on June 30, 2015. Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on June 30, 2015. Abbas Dulleh—AP by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jul 1, 2015 2:32 PM UTC Liberia has reported its second case of Ebola on Tuesday after nearly two months of being Ebola-free. Liberia had been declared officially Ebola-free on May 9 after it had gone 42 days with no new cases. On Sunday, the body of a teenage boy was discovered in a rural area outside of the capital Monrovia and was confirmed to have the virus, [Reuters reports](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/01/us-health-ebola-liberia-idUSKCN0PB47T20150701). The news was not made public until Tuesday. People who came into contact with the boy have been isolated, and at least one of those patients [has tested positive](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/world/africa/liberia-ebola-epidemic.html?%5Fr=0). Though Liberia was declared free from Ebola infections in May, the outbreak has continued in Guinea and Sierra Leone, which share borders. “There is no known source of infection and there’s no information about him traveling to Guinea or \[Sierra Leone\],” a spokesperson for the ministry of health [told ](http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2015/06/liberias-puzzle-how-did-new-ebola-patient-become-infected)[_Science_](http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2015/06/liberias-puzzle-how-did-new-ebola-patient-become-infected)_._ So far, Ebola has infected 27,400 people in all three countries, killing over 11,200. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/"},"headline":"Ebola Cases Resurface in Liberia After 2 Months of Being Ebola-Free","datePublished":"2015-07-01T14:32:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:05:08.859Z","description":"A teenage boy died from the virus and may have infected others","url":"https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/","keywords":["ebola","Sierra Leone","Guinea","Liberia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d39735f38e9144a/6988594ce53aba828c4de6f3/liberia-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d39735f38e9144a/6988594ce53aba828c4de6f3/liberia-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Liberia Ebola West Africa","caption":"Liberia Ebola West Africa","creditText":"Abbas Dulleh—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/","name":"Ebola Cases Resurface in Liberia After 2 Months of Being Ebola-Free"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch One Man’s Story of Surviving Ebola","description":"Watch One Man’s Story of Surviving Ebola","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XfeUoCr9/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-03T18:55:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XfeUoCr9.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/","duration":"PT1M32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```