But I hope this news can be used to bolster up the overall effort. It won't bring back the kid who died, but if they get the help they need, Liberia should be able to regain its virus-free status in a few months.

What's so awful about this is that Liberia's success provided a promise of hope to Guinea and Sierra Leone.

I was shocked. Also the 17 year-old who died was apparently selling used clothes in a market, so this raises issues about other non-detected cases.

Also after falling ill some clinic is supposed to have diagnosed him as having malaria. Well, Ebola symptoms are pretty generic, but this suggests that surveillance precautions were dropped far too soon. The boy's father is the one who contacted the burial team. This is disturbing.

The three confirmed cases dug up a dead dog and ate it, and they think that's how they were exposed:
http://reporters365.com/2015/07/72876/three-new-ebola-cases-in-liberia-after-victims-ate-dog-meat.html

There were previously studies done showing dogs had been exposed in Ebola areas:
http://www.hcplive.com/medical-news/Ebola-Dogs-as-Vectors

So the guess is that the dog ate an infected animal.

While not good, this is far preferable to some other possibilities.

K&R

if it was available. Or argue that their irrational personal choice is more important than global public health.

I think if we can get a good one that the world can develop the funding to administer it.

We're at the point at which Ebola may not go away, and sooner or later, it is likely to go global. The nightmare scenario is that it infiltrates India.

If there are animal vectors now in Liberia and the surrounding area, the world needs to cough up the money for a testing program to find them and deal with the situation.