--- title: Ebola Kills Woman in Liberia description: The country had been disease-free for nearly two months canonical: https://time.com/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-14T16:08:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:34.079Z article:section: Health og:title: Woman Dies of Ebola in Feared Outbreak in Liberia og:description: The country had been disease-free for two months og:url: https://time.com/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Dies of Ebola in Feared Outbreak in Liberia twitter:description: The country had been disease-free for two months twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ebola Kills Woman in Liberia ## Video: Ebola Fighters in West Africa - TIME's Person of the Year 2014 [Watch (HLS stream): Ebola Fighters in West Africa - TIME's Person of the Year 2014](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/laroqNbt.m3u8) (10:47)  _Published 2014-12-10. Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health workers work every day to treat and contain the outbreak in the hot zone_  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Jul 14, 2015 4:08 PM UTC  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Jul 14, 2015 4:08 PM UTC A Liberian woman has [died](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/14/us-health-ebola-idUSKCN0PO1EN20150714) from Ebola, igniting fears of a comeback of the virus that ravaged the region from December 2013 through early this year. The newest cases are centered around Montserrado County, home to the country’s capital Monrovia, and neighboring Margibi County, where the disease was first reported to have emerged last month, according to Reuters. There have now been six confirmed cases of the virus in the area. The woman died only a few hours after being admitted to the hospital. Liberia had been celebrating nearly two months of being Ebola-free prior to the latest reemergence of the virus. Health experts believe the virus was dormant during that time, but could have been transmitted sexually by an Ebola survivor. The first death of the most recent outbreak occurred earlier in July when a [teenage boy died](http://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/) from the virus. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/"},"headline":"Ebola Kills Woman in Liberia","datePublished":"2015-07-14T16:08:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:58:34.079Z","description":"The country had been disease-free for nearly two months","url":"https://time.com/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/","keywords":["ebola","Liberia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"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/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/","name":"Ebola Kills Woman in Liberia"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ebola Fighters in West Africa - TIME's Person of the Year 2014","description":"Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health workers work every day to treat and contain the outbreak in the hot zone","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/laroqNbt/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-10T11:46:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/laroqNbt.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/","duration":"PT10M47S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3957212/ebola-liberia-reemerge/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```