Liberia is trying to control a new Ebola outbreak

Medical workers in Liberia
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Liberia officials said Sunday they are monitoring 153 people after they confirmed three new cases of Ebola, Reuters reports. The West African nation has twice been declared Ebola-free, in May and then again in September.

No neighboring countries currently have any known cases of the deadly virus, so World Health Organization investigators are working to determine how the new cases came about in a suburb of Monrovia, Liberia's capital.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.