Over 680 people quarantined after 16-year-old dies from ebola

Health authorities quarantined hundreds of people in northern Sierra Leone after a 16-year-old girl died of ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission, the first confirmed death from the virus in the district for nearly six months.

Sierra Leone celebrated last month when it discharged the last remaining ebola patient from its treatment centres.

But since then a new spate of cases has erupted, leaving two dead and five people in treatment.