In March 2015, health workers carry a body of a person that they suspected died form the Ebola virus at a new graveyard on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. Liberian health authorities are investigating after eight people died of a mystery illness, 10 months after the end of a two-year Ebola virus outbreak. (Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press)Eleven people have died and five are in hospital, Liberian officials said on Friday, after contracting a mystery illness the World Health Organization (WHO) said was linked to attendance at the funeral of a religious leader. On Wednesday, the WHO said Liberian health authorities were taking rapid precautionary steps after eight people died of a mystery illness, 10 months after the end of a two-year Ebola virus outbreak. In June last year, the WHO declared Liberia free of active Ebola virus transmission, the last of three West African countries at the epicentre of the world's worst outbreak of the disease.

Source: CBC News April 28, 2017 13:52 UTC