--- description: The country had been disease-free for nearly two months title: Woman Dies of Ebola in Feared Outbreak in Liberia image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ebola](/tag/ebola/) ## ebola Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ebola Kills Woman in Liberia  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 14, 2015 4:08 PM CUT  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 14, 2015 4:08 PM CUT A Liberian woman has [died](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/14/us-health-ebola-idUSKCN0PO1EN20150714 "undefined") 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/ "undefined") 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":"2026-02-22T09:13:59.741Z","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"}}] ```