Mali announces first Ebola case
Mali's health minister says the West African country has confirmed its first case of Ebola. The announcement made on Malian state television Thursday evening
by Ousmane Kone said that the patient was a two-year-old girl who had
come from neighbouring Guinea. The child was brought to a hospital in the Malian town of Kayes on
Wednesday, and her blood sample tested positive for the virus.
Mali becomes the sixth West African country to report an Ebola case —
though nearly all the cases and deaths have occurred in Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Guinea.
Senegal and Nigeria had imported cases though both have now been declared Ebola-free.
The World Health Organization says the disease has killed at least 4,877 people and infected 9,936.
1 comment:
I hope they are able to contain it. It gets manageable when its curbed at first. Wishing them the best
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